PDO Exception 1049 when migrating PHP application from MySQL - php

Question

I have been trying to migrate the following mysql connection function to PDO:
function validate_email_input($email)
{
$dbc = #mysql_connect('localhost', 'userName', '******');
mysql_select_db('users', $dbc);
$query = "SELECT email FROM user_list WHERE email='$email'";
if ($result = mysql_query($query, $dbc))
{
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
if ($row['email'] == $email)
{
return TRUE;
}
else
{
return FALSE;
}
}
else
{
echo '<p class="error">Could not retrieve he data because:<br />' . mysql_error($dbc) . '.</p>
<p>The query being run was: ' . $query . '</p>';
}
}
This works just fine. But I get an error when I try the following PDO function to achieve the same result:
function validate_email_input($email)
{
// Step 1: Establish a connection
$db = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=users", "userName", "******");
// Step 2: Construct a query
$query = "SELECT * FROM user_list WHERE email = '$email'";
// Step 3: Send the query
$result = $db->query($query);
// Step 4: Iterate over the results
if ($result)
{
$row = $result->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
if ($row['email'] == $email)
{
return TRUE;
}
else
{
return FALSE;
}
}
// Step 5: Free used resources
$result->closeCursor();
$db = null;
}
And yes - I did try the above function with try-catch but that doesn't affect anything. I still get the error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'users''
I'm using the apache2 module included with Bitnami RubyStack (v. 1.9.3-25), which uses PHP version 5.4.3
Already checked php.ini file and all the PDO extensions are uncommented.
Please help! Thanks

Answer 1

Found the solution! Apparently it wanted me to specify the port number (localhost:3307) instead of just localhost when creating the PDO object. Anyone know how to change the default localhost port in Bitnami RubyStack for Windows?