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Asked: 2026-05-24T15:36:21+00:00

I’m trying to connect my Zend application to a MySQL process running on a

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I’m trying to connect my Zend application to a MySQL process running on a shared server. The basic config should be fine, as it was working with a LAMP server.

The problem is, I need to specify the host as being the an sql process: myprocess.db, rather than localhost: 

resources.db.adapter = PDO_MYSQL
resources.db.params.charset = "utf8"
resources.db.params.host = mysqlprocess.db
resources.db.params.username = username
resources.db.params.password = password
resources.db.params.dbname = dbname

However, when I do, I get this:

Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() [function.mysql-real-escape-string]: 
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'please_see_the_faq' (2) 
in /f5/metamusic/protected/application/controllers/SearchController.php on line 418

The host I’m using is NearlyFreeSpeech, and this message is apparently triggered when attempting to connect to SQL without specifying the process you’re interested in:
http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/mysql/mysqllocalhost#mysqllocalhost

Using the same details and mysql_connect($server, $user) works without issue, so it looks like Zend is somehow not using the correct host parameter.

Any ideas what’s going wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m posting my eventual solution here for future reference:

    It turns out, the database connection was already working. However, my call to mysql_real_escape_string() was failing, and the resulting error message suggested that the entire database connection had failed.

    The solution was simply to replace the above call with Zend_DB_Adapter’s quote(), and suddenly everything works.

    Why this works on a LAMP machine and not a shared server, I have no idea. For now though, this is a good enough solution!

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