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PHP Integrating PHP with Databases Databases and PHP Getting Started with PDO

Posted by jlampstack
jlampstack
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MySQLi Question

Do these magic constants such as DIR only work in sqlite?

Or do they work as well in MySQLi? And if so should I be using them in MySQLi?

I am using phpMyAdmin v7.1.1

My current connection looks something like this....

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";

try {
    $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=database", $username, $password);
    // set the PDO error mode to exception
    $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    echo "Connected successfully"; 
    }
catch(PDOException $e)
    {
    echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
    }

var_dump($conn);