wampserver php5.3.1 and Pear:DB problems

Question

I've installed PHP5.3.1 on top of 5.3.0 on my Windows 7 Pro laptop. I've installed Smarty, Pear and the relevant Pear packages. I use a config.php file to set up my development site on Win separately from my production sites which run on Linux. I've checked phpinfo and everything is set up correctly.

Now when I try and open up my Home page (login page) on 5.3.1, It thinks for about a minute, doesn't load, leaving a blank screen, and generates no errors. I've tried hiding parts of the config file and the stumbling block appears to be:

require_once "DB.php";
$db = DB::connect("mysql://root:$dbpass@$dbhost/$dbname") or die("unable to connect to $dbhost");
$db_hw = DB::connect( "mysql://root:$dbpass@$dbhosthw/egret" ) or die("unable to connect to $dbhost_hw");

My service uses two different database servers. I'm not even getting the die("") statements displaying.

Any suggestions as to what might be wrong?

George

Answer 1

This is not working. In your case you overwrite the connection with the second connect. With mysql_connect or mysqli_connect you get a ressource back and you can handle your queries with the specified ressource:

How do you connect to multiple MySQL databases on a single webpage?

But when you use PEAR you access the same class DB::connect and this overwrites the db ressource and connection.

In your case you can call the disconnect() function before a new connection:

require_once "DB.php";
$db = DB::connect("mysql://root:$dbpass@$dbhost/$dbname") or die("unable to connect to $dbhost");
$db->disconnect();

$db = DB::connect( "mysql://root:$dbpass@$dbhosthw/egret" ) or die("unable to connect to $dbhost_hw");