How can I connect PHP to Bluemix database? - php

Question

I have an php file, and I want to connect it to Database
usually I use localhost but I never use php in Bluemix
what should I fill these attributes ?
$DB_HOST = 'localhost'; // what should I write instead of
$DB_USER = '';
$DB_PASSWORD = '';
$DB_DATABASE = 'MyDataBase';
please help

Answer 1

First: You Create a folder .bp-config/options.json in the parent folder
and add below line, of code in the options.json folder, so sqli connect will working.
{
"PHP_EXTENSIONS": ["mysqli"]
}
Now make a connection:
$DB_HOST = '127.0.0.1:3307'; // insert ip with port number
$DB_USER = 'user';
$DB_PASSWORD = 'password';
$DB_DATABASE = 'dbname';
$mysqli = new mysqli($DB_HOST,$DB_USER,$DB_PASSWORD,$DB_DATABASE);
$result = $mysqli->query(" SELECT * FROM table_name ");
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();

Answer 2

Create your database service on Bluemix and BIND it to your application. Go to your applications dashboard and you should see the database service instance below. Click on Show Credentials.
However, the right way to do this is to programmatically get the credentials by parsing the VCAP_SERVICES environment variable. See this example:
https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/php-mysql See db.php

Answer 3

You have to parse db information from VCAP_SERVICES.
If your database service is "SQL Database" you can connect to SQLDB using this example code:
//parse VCAP_SERVICES Environment variable
$vcap_services = $_ENV["VCAP_SERVICES"];
$services_json = json_decode($vcap_services,true);
$sqldb = $services_json["sqldb"];
if (empty($sqldb)) {
echo "No sqldb service instance is bound. Please bind a sqldb service instance";
return;
}
//Get Credentials object (db,host,port,username,password)
$sqldb_config = $services_json["sqldb"][0]["credentials"];
$conn_string = "DRIVER={IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER};DATABASE=".
$sqldb_config["db"].
";HOSTNAME=".
$sqldb_config["host"].
";PORT=".
$sqldb_config["port"].
";PROTOCOL=TCPIP;UID=".
$sqldb_config["username"].
";PWD=".
$sqldb_config["password"].
";";
$conn = db2_connect($conn_string, '', ''); //db connection