Question

I’m trying to connect to an Oracle DB which is currently offline. When it’s online it’s not a problem, however, now that it’s offline my program is getting hung up on the $connection = oci_connect() line and timing out. How do I simply check the connectio and bail out if it’s not there?

Answer 1

Try this (fill in your ip and port):

if ( @fsockopen($db_ip,$db_port ) ) {     //connect to database } else {     // didn't work }