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PHP

Jonathan Wakely
Jonathan Wakely
32 Points
Posted by Jonathan Wakely
Jonathan Wakely
32 Points

Using Mamp (default settings), how do I test my php connection to my MySQL Database?

So as the above title states, I'm just trying to connect to my Mysql DB* via a php script (below), but all I am seeing is this result output in my browser:

" \n"; } if (!$tblCnt) { echo "There are no tables \n"; } else { echo "There are $tblCnt tables \n"; } ?> "

Please help me!

  • J

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<?php

Fill our vars and run on cli

$ php -f db-connect-test.php

$dbname = 'learning'; $dbuser = 'root'; $dbpass = ''; $dbhost = 'localhost'; $link = mysqli_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die("Unable to Connect to '$dbhost'"); mysqli_select_db($link, $dbname) or die("Could not open the db '$dbname'"); $test_query = "SHOW TABLES FROM $dbname"; $result = mysqli_query($link, $test_query); $tblCnt = 0; while($tbl = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) { $tblCnt++;

echo $tbl[0]."<br />\n";

} if (!$tblCnt) { echo "There are no tables<br />\n"; } else { echo "There are $tblCnt tables<br />\n"; } ?>

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