[arch-general] php / mysql connection after recent update

[Chris Allison]

On 11 March 2010 10:23, Chris Allison
<chris.charles.allison at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Morning,
>
> Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql
> database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect.
> I had to append the port number to the host definition in the mysql connect
> function call to get them to work again.  I have been unable to find what
> has changed.  Any ideas where the change may have happened.
>
> thanks
>
> Chris Allison
>
>
Hi,

Digging a bit deeper, the php.ini directive mysql_default_port is not set,
though it has never been set in my php.ini.  setting that to 3306 solved the
problem.

Sorry for the noise.

Cheers

Chris