Question

I’m trying to connect to mysql with PHP and it doesn’t work at all.

<?php

$con = mysql_connect('localhost', 'xxxx', 'xxxx');

mysql_select_db("test_site", $con);

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM test");

echo $query;

mysql_close($con);
?>

My entire script stops right after the first line($con = …). I tried adding echo “TEST”; right after that line and it didn’t show. When I try to print text before that line, it works fine. Even if I add something like:

if (!$con)
{
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

No error shows. I’m assuming that means the connection was fine… so why does my script stop? When I do the same thing through my terminal I get * from test, just like I need. Not with PHP.

Help? =]

thanks

edit:

nvm, found a way to make it work.

Answer 1

You need to install the php5 mysql modules. This will install the modules and set them up in PHP on Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql