Question

I’ve read a ton of threads and solutions, I’m not purposely trying to make yet another one of these posts.

Now that thats out of the way

if i run this in my local osx folder (with web sharing on), i get a could not connect error:

<?php

$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "password");

if (!$db) {
die('Could not connect' . mysql_error());
}
echo 'Connected successfully';

yet when i go to terminal and run the following it works fine:

mysql -u root -h 'localhost' -p
password<enter>

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1030
Server version: 5.5.25a MySQL Community Server (GPL)

i have updated php.ini to point to /tmp/mysql.sock as well

Answer 1

If you’re just starting out and are using PHP5, you should not use mysql_connect, but instead mysqli_connect (use of the mysql extension is discouraged).

Check connect_error to get more information about why the connection is failing.

(Example taken from the above doc)

<?php
$mysqli = @new mysqli('localhost', 'root', 'password', 'THE DB NAME');

// Works as of PHP 5.2.9 and 5.3.0.
if ($mysqli->connect_error) {
    die('Connect Error: ' . $mysqli->connect_error);
}