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I am trying to connect to databse on my server by using this code:
<?php
$username = "username";
$servername = "localhost";
$password = "password";
echo "Before connection";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>
But code after $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password); is not executing. When i try to echo anything after it I do not get output. Code before that line works as expected. I do not get any errors from php.
I am not sure what is problem. Could it be something server related? I did try to add:
ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
but it didn't help, no errors have been displayed.
I have been trying many things from stackoverflow (and other places) but they didnt help, some examples:
Connecting to a mysql database from php, error but no error shown?
Connection of MySQL with PHP not working

Answer 1

There are multiple ways to handle errors
Simplest of all, use try catch while connecting
<?php
$username = "username";
$servername = "localhost";
$password = "password";
echo "Before connection";
// Create connection
try {
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password); } catch(\Exception $e) { var_dump ('oopss... this is the error', $e)}
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "Connected