Question

<?php
try {
  $DBH = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname", $user, $pass);
  $sql = $DBH->exec("
    CREATE TABLE `store_config` (
    store_name varchar(30),
    last_update date)
    ");
} catch (PDOException $e) {
  echo "Could not connect to database.";
  $DBH = null;
}
?>

The PDOException is not thrown, there is probably an SQL error but I don’t know how to retrieve that error and when I check the database with phpMyAdmin there are no tables created. What did I do wrong?

Thanks for reading.

EDIT:
When I executed the same SQL code directly into phpMyAdmin it gave permission denied error…

1142 – CREATE command denied to user ‘$user’@’$my_ip’ for table ‘store_config’

I am confused because when I created the user with the web hosts web form it didn’t give me options to grant any permissions but only to make this user the database owner – is that what I have to do?

EDIT:

I gave my user account ‘DBO access’ and it works now (the table is created).

Thanks for your comments.

Answer 1

Try this. It should get you the error you’re looking for that will tell you whats going on.

<?php
try {
  $DBH = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname", $user, $pass);
  $sql = $DBH->exec("
    CREATE TABLE `store_config` (
    store_name varchar(30),
    last_update date)
    ") or die(print_r($DBH->errorInfo(), true));
} catch (PDOException $e) {
  echo "Could not connect to database.";
  $DBH = null;
}
?>