Question

So I’m having an issue connecting to a mySQL database I created on my local host using XAMPP. The DB itself is set up fine on 127.0.0.1, but I had to use port 8000 (instead of 80) to get it to start in XAMPP.

  $con = mysql_connect("localhost:8000","","");
 if (!$con) {
   die('Connection failed.' . mysql_error());
 }

The above doesn’t work, the browser times out after a few seconds saying it cannot display the webpage (note that it doesn’t give the die message). I have also tried 127.0.0.1:8000 but no luck. Creating a user in phpMyAdmin and entering the credentials didn’t achieve anything either.

If I take out the port and just use:

$con = mysql_connect("localhost","","");

This connects, but I can’t seem to select my database because I don’t think it’s connecting to the right server!

Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

1. Do not use mysql_*it is deprecated
2. Port 8000 is for your server not mysql. Default mysql port 3306

You better of using PDO

http://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.construct.php