Why the require_once is not working in following scenario? - php

Question

I've following code of a function in a PHP file titled sample.php :
function deleteValue($value) {
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "jumbo";
$dbname = "demo";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$sql = "DELETE FROM user WHERE value = '$value'";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
$conn->close();
return true;
} else {
$conn->close();
return false;
}
}
Actually, in this file(sample.php) there are too many such functions which repeats the following database connectivity code :
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "jumbo";
$dbname = "demo";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
Then, I created one file titled db.php in the same folder and added the above code to it. Using require_once('db.php'); at the beginning of file 'sample.php'I included the file to the above code. Finally the code appeared as follows :
require_once('db.php');
function deleteValue($value) {
$sql = "DELETE FROM user WHERE value = '$value'";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
$conn->close();
return true;
} else {
$conn->close();
return false;
}
}
Now it's giving me 500 Internal Server error.
Even instead of including the file I tried by pasting the whole code from db.php at the beginning of file sample.php as follows but still I get 500 Internal Server Error.
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "jumbo";
$dbname = "demo";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
function deleteValue($value) {
$sql = "DELETE FROM user WHERE value = '$value'";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
$conn->close();
return true;
} else {
$conn->close();
return false;
}
}
Can someone please correct the mistake I'm making in my code?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I will suggest you that in db_config.php file you should use only database config and functions like this:
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "jumbo";
$dbname = "jumbo_jet";
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
if ($conn->connect_errno) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: (" . $conn->connect_errno . ") " . $conn->connect_error;
}
And in common.php use code like this:
require_once("db_config.php");
function deleteToken($receivedToken) {
global $conn;
$sql = "DELETE FROM user_login WHERE token = '$receivedToken'";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
I hope it will work for you. If anything else then let me know.