mysqli_connect did not work - Source

Revision: 47260
User: Fujimoto Minoru
Date: 2016-07-28 12:13

i will try the make local database from csv File.
but Sql did not connect local Mysql server , why?
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I am new both to MariaDB and to this forum but this person's question describes my situation today (28 July 2016 around dawn UK time; that's right: I can't sleep) so I will try to give enough details of my situation because I am stuck and I hope that you can help me.

By the way I hope that the way I am adding to this enquiry/question is correct; I am presented with a form with boxes for the original question and answer which seems to invite me to edit both of them.

I set up a new Linux server to be a web host. I installed Ubuntu MATE, Apache, and PHP successfully and the server works. PHP works so I have scripts working including phpinfo().

I installed MariaDB following instructions on a website for that and I believe that I created a database name because following instructions I did this (using iphdb1 as database name):

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE iphdb1;

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> USE iphdb1;

Database changed

I conclude from this that I have a working MariaDB installation and a (so far empty) database with name iphdb1 so I then tried to write a PHP script that would connect to this  so far empty database for the first time and create the first table in it.

Now I was previously webmaster for a while of a site that used MySQL and had an existing database with a PHP code library, so I borrowed some basics from that, and (when I discovered yesterday that the mysql_ functions had been deprecated and renamed mysqli_) where, please note, the appended letter i before the underscore, I wrote this:

$DB_NAME='iphdb1';

$IPHDB=dbconnect();

function dbconnect(){

global $DB_USERNAME,$DB_PASSWORD,$DB_NAME;

$mydb=mysqli_connect('localhost', $DB_USERNAME, $DB_PASSWORD, $DB_NAME);

if (!$mydb){

echo 'Could not connect to database &#8220;'.$DB_NAME.'&#8221;. '.

'mysqli_error() was: <pre> '.mysqli_error().'</pre> ';

echo "Error number: " . $mysqli->connect_errno .' '."\n";

echo "Error: " . $mysqli->connect_error .' '."\n";

exit();

}

echo 'Connected successfully to database &#8220;iphdb1&#8221;. ';
 
 $mydb_result=mysqli_select_db($DB_NAME,$mydb);

if (!$db_result) {

echo 'Could not select database &#8220;'.$DB_NAME.'&#8221;. '.

'mysqli_error() was: <pre> '.mysqli_error().'</pre> ';

exit();

}

return $mydb;

}
When I invoked this (using require_once()) from a test script I got the following in the browser:

Could not connect to database “iphdb1”. mysqli_error() was:

Error number:

Error:

So the invocation of mysqli_connect() did not cause the script to crash with no output at all to the browser, as the attempt using now-deprecated mysql_connect() had done.

But the call to mysqli_error() and references to $mysqli->connect_errno and _error gave nothing.

Is this what I should expect here if I got the username and/or password wrong?
Why doesn't MariaDB say "unknown username" or "wrong password" or something then?

What can I ask MariaDB at the shell window prompt MariaDB [(none)]> to tell it what username I am working under? Or how else can I establish what I have managed to set up by default as my username and password for this purpose in this PHP script?

Thanks.

I have searched for some sort of basic example of using PHP to access, create and update and read a MariaDB database on a system like mine and cannot find any hits at all.
If I search for +MariaDB +mysqli_connect (using plus to insist hits contain both) the search (the big G) comes back with precisely zero results. Is nobody writing about using PHP functions to access a MariaDB database?!

Thanks again; puzzled.

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