Connecting to MySQL Database with Code Hosted Locally - php

Question

When I try to run working php code on my localhost instead of the web server, I am getting a connection error.
Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [mysqli.mysqli]: [2002] Connection refused
Any idea how to get the MySQL username, db, and password to work from my local machine? I am using OS X Mountain Lion and Apache.
Do I have to login to the database server and add my IP?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Unless you've changed the default password root is allowed to connect to localhost, so that would be something like this :
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "root", "", "");
if ($mysqli->connect_errno) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: (" . $mysqli->connect_errno . ") " . $mysqli->connect_error;
}
echo $mysqli->host_info . "\n";
$mysqli = new mysqli("127.0.0.1", "user", "password", "database", 3306);
if ($mysqli->connect_errno) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: (" . $mysqli->connect_errno . ") " . $mysqli->connect_error;
}
echo $mysqli->host_info . "\n";
?>
You can replace localhost by an ip, depends on how your database is configured to allow connections, using localhost or an explicit ip.

Answer 2

in case you have downloaded the code from a server and are trying to make a local replica then you need to update the connection parameters to match your local configuration. You need to update username, password , database etc. as per your local settings.. Hostname you may keep as localhost
Respond back if things are not working and add more detail on how things started like how you set up the code locally..and what things you have tried yet..