Given a file called index.php which contains:
$db = NewADOConnection($db_dsn);
if (!$db) die("Connection failed");
$arrpage = $db->GetArray("SELECT * FROM somewhere");
include("functions.inc.php");
details("SELECT * FROM somewherelse");
The $arrpage contains the expect information
Then in the functions.inc.php file:
function details($query) {
global $db; //should check to make sure it exists
$options_array = $db->GetArray($query);
The $options_array is empty even though it should contain data.
var_dump($db) shows the DB object is all there. var_dump($options_array) is blank.
PHP 5.3.4
MySQL 14.14
ADODB 5.14
try:
$options_array = $db->GetAll($query);
Well after a lot of troubleshooting, all I needed to do was get up, have a pint of good beer and come back to it another time.
The short of it is: the system uses caching and upon close inspection of my error logs I noticed that the the cache files weren't being written to the cache folder because of folder permission issues.
I therefore fixed the folder permissions and now that the cache files can be saved, the DB query has something to refer to.
Thanks for the help anyways, I do appreciate it.
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I'm trying to get ADODB caching to work. I have a php script where i define the DB connection.
global $conn;
$conn = new COM ("ADODB.Connection");
$connStr = "PROVIDER-SQLOLEDB;SERVER=;UID=;PWD=;DATABASE=);
$conn->open($connStr);
I left the unnecessary details out of the picture.
Then in some other script i import the connection.php, and then try to make a normal query.
$query = "SELECT * from table where some_id = 21540 and other_id = BOGUS_INFO"
$rs = $GLOBALS['conn']->CacheExecute(60,$query);
This returns Uncaught exception 'com_exception'.. ADODB.Connection Arguments are of the wrong type,are out of acceptable range, or are in conflict with another.
I'm baffled because the next line of code works flawlessly.
$rs = $GLOBALS['conn']->execute($query); //OK!
Any ideeas?
I also tried CacheGetOne but i get the same error.
Could it be from the way i defined this thing below? (it's literally like that in my code)
$GLOBALS['ADODB_CACHE_DIR']=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/../cache/adodb';
Well after alot of hassle, i kinda found an answer by choosing another way of doing things. I downloaded the latest ADODB build. Inserted it in my project, and modified files accordingly:
The connection.php changed to:
require('PATH/adodb.inc.php');
require('PATH/adodb-csvlib.inc.php');//read somewhere that i need this for the caching executes
$GLOBALS['ADODB_CACHE_DIR'] = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/cache/adodb';
global $ADODB_CACHE_DIR; //don't know which one adodb usese really to identify cache directory so for safety - both
$ADODB_CACHE_DIR = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/cache/adodb';
$conn = NewADOConnection('mssqlnative');//i tried first with mssql simple but script terminated execution on execute() attempt.. no error.. no nothing.. no output .. strange
$conn->Connect($myServer, $myUser, $myPass, $myDb);
After that i had to fiddle a bit with the code because,
$rs = $conn->CacheExecute(time,query)
returns Adodbrecordset_array_mssqlnative Object, and not an array, and, in my code i used to display and manipulate values as
while (!$rs->EOF) {
$rs['row']->value;
$rs->MoveNext();
}
and now they should be
$rs->fields['row'];
Another tricky thing was getting the fields array to be associated to the names of the columns in my query, but after a short search i discovered
$GLOBALS['conn']->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC);
and voila! Everything works, even the caching.
It took script execution times with this bare optimisation from 1 sec to 0.1 or even 0.005 sometimes.
How can I detect what type of database I'm connecting to in drupal (using php code)? I am trying to write a module which exposes some database functionality which only works on postgres or sql server. Currently, I'm doing it by trying to detect the database version, since the syntax appears to be different for each database but it doesn't seem very robust. Is there a php function which will report this?
You should use the global variable: $databases and check the driver value.
global $databases;
dpm($databases);
https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/48882/how-to-get-database-credentials
I don't fully understand what you're trying at the moment but
db_driver()
returns he currently connected database in Drupal as a string (e.g. "pgsql").
This may be helpfull to you. Use db_set_active() API to set your database before executing the query.
This will help you to keep away from errors
<?php
//set your configurations
$db_url['default'] = 'mysql://drupal:drupal#localhost/drupal';
$db_url['mydb'] = 'mysql://user:pwd#localhost/anotherdb';
$db_url['db3'] = 'mysql://user:pwd#localhost/yetanotherdb';
//set the active database and then process your queries in this case you can always knows which database is connected now.
db_set_active('mydb');
db_query('SELECT * FROM table_in_anotherdb');
Setting multiple databases
<?php
// ... header of the settings.php file
$db_url = array (
"default" => "mysql://user:pass#host/db",
"second" => "pgsql://user:pass#host/db"
);
db_set_active('second');
Ref: https://drupal.org/node/18429
This is the code that connects to my SQL database. I'm new with this stuff and it seems to be semi-working but certain features on my website still don't work.
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
$select_db = mysql_select_db('database1',$con);
/*$con = mysql_connect("localhost","username2","password2");
$select_db = mysql_select_db('database2',$con);*/
?>
This is the site in question: http://tmatube.com keep in mind the credentials above are filled in with what the programmer used for testing on his own server... ;) unfortunately I don't have access to him for support anymore.
Anyway, here's my thoughts on how this code needs to be edited maybe someone can chime in and let me know if I'm correct in my assumptions:
<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","username1","password1"); -------------<<< leave this line
$select_db = mysql_select_db('DATABASE_NAME_HERE',$con);
/*$con = mysql_connect("localhost","DB_USERNAME_HERE","DB_PASSWORD_HERE");
$select_db = mysql_select_db('DATABASE_NAME_HERE',$con);*/
?>
Ok - now on to a few problems I noticed...
What does this do? /* code here */? It doesn't work at all if I leave that bit in.
Why is it connecting to database twice? and is it two separate databases?
$select_db = mysql_select_db('DATABASE_NAME_HERE',$con); <<<---- single '
When I tried to see if that line was correct the examples I saw had quotes like this
$select_db = mysql_select_db("DATABASE_NAME_HERE",$con); <<<---- double "
Which one is right?
He didn't leave it out. What he did was leave the database to be connected using the root, which has no password. The other connection (which is commented out) is using another user, rajvivya_video, with a password defined.
In testing it MIGHT be okay to connect to root and leave it without password, but even that is not recommended, since its so easy to work with a user and password defined (besides root).
Here is php mysql connect with mysqli:
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("myhost","myuser","mypassw","mybd");
?>
No difference here with ' or ". (Anyway use mysqli and you can the wanted db as 4th parameter.) php quotes
/* comment */ is a commented out so the php does not care what is inside so only 2 first rows of are affecting (they are same mysql database on the local machine and 2 different user + password combinations). Comment in general are used to explain the code or removing part of the code with out erasing it. php commenting
This is my first time transferring my local dev site to another local site to test out, and can't access the database in the new site. Both computers are running XAMPP on Macs. The test site has successfully installed XAMPP, and has placed database files under Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql. The test user is able to start Apache and MySQL, and see database files in PHPMyAdmin. The test user is also able to access the local web site with no error messages.
EDIT: The database files were copied over by copying/zipping the file on my end, and unzipping/dropping the copied files on the test end.
However, the local web site does not seem to see the database. Pages that are supposed to return data just show the default "sorry, we're sold out" message or show "image not found" graphics, and the admin is unable to log in.
The index page calls
include_once "common/base.php";
which consists of
<?php
// Set the error reporting level
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);
// Start a PHP session
session_start();
$_SESSION['docroot'] = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/mysite/';
// Include site constants
include_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/inc/constants.inc.php";
if ( !isset($_SESSION['token']) )
{
$_SESSION['token'] = md5(uniqid(rand(), TRUE));
$_SESSION['token_time'] = time();
}
// Create a database object
try {
$dsn = "mysql:host=".DB_HOST.";dbname=".DB_NAME;
$_db = new PDO($dsn, DB_USER, DB_PASS);
} catch (PDOException $e) {
echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
exit;
}
?>
If there was a connection problem, I would expect to see an error message returned, which I can verify by changing the constants in inc/constants.inc.php to bogus values. So I don't believe there's a connection problem.
If you were in my position, what would you check?
EDIT: I just found out about the Export function in PHPMyAdmin. I'm going to try deleting the db files that were copied over, exporting the files from PHPMyAdmin, and then importing them in the test machine.
EDIT: I just had the test machine do a simple
$sql = "SELECT FirstName From users";
$stmt = $_db->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute();
$aaData = array();
while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_NUM)){
$aaData[] = $row;
}
$stmt->closeCursor();
print_r($aaData);
on the index page, it shows the correct list of users. So the connection is good,
and there's an issue elsewhere. Would y'all say that I still need to delete the copied db and use the "correct" way (export/import), or is that a waste of time?
FINAL EDIT: I did redo the move using Export/Import and everything is working well now. Thanks to all.
First off, zipping files in the mysql data directory and moving them is not the best way to go. It can work if you have completely flushed/shut down the mysql server before moving them. You are better off using mysqldump or a similar tool to move entire databases at a time.
It sounds to me like you moved over your app's database files, but you probably forgot to add the user/password credentials to the new MySQL setup. You mentioned you use phpMyAdmin, so when you login on the other machine click the "Privileges" tab and make sure it matches up with the Privileges tab on your dev machine.
If it's not that, then it is entirely likely that by zipping and copying the files some/all of the tables were corrupted. Try using phpMyAdmin's Export and Import capabilities to move the database over. If the data is very large let me know and I can give you some command line entries to run.
Hope this helps.
I am new to Joomla and new to php (wish I was so new in age too). I have installed joomla on a local apache webserver. I am trying to use some php code in a joomla article in order to fetch some data from a Sybase ASE 12.5 database. I installed sourcerer and started to try an ODBC connection using a system DSN (which I verified it is working):
{source}
<?php
echo 'This text is placed through <b>PHP</b>!';
echo '<p>';
echo '</p>';
$conn = odbc_connect('myDSN', 'sa', 'myPassword') or die('Could not connect !');
echo 'Connected successfully';
$sql = 'SELECT day, name FROM my_table where month = 1';
odbc_close($conn);
?>
{/source}
The above code doesn't do much, but this is how far I can get without problems. I refresh the joomla page and I see inside the article's text:
...
This text is placed through PHP!
Connected successfully
...
Seems ok, the connection obviously established (I verified this by stopping the sybase service and getting the "Could not connect" message). Then I added one more line, just below the $sql assignment.
$rs = odbc_exec($conn,$sql);
I refresh and ...I see nothing coming from the script (not even the "This text is placed through PHP!").
Obviously, I see nothing if I include code to echo the contents of $rs. I also tried this but in vain.
if (!$rs)
{exit("Error in SQL");}
Once I add the odbc_exec command, the entire script ceases working.
In php.ini I read:
; Windows Extensions
; Note that ODBC support is built in, so no dll is needed for it.
Do you have any idea what is going wrong?
UPDATE
Connecting to a MySQL database using code like this, works like a charm.
To answer your question
Is this the correct way to get data
from another database in to an article
or should I use some plug-in to do
that?
The correct way is to use JDatabase object which you get by JFactory::getDBO() or JDatabase::getInstance(), see Joomla JDatabase documentation.
$db = JDatabase::getInstance( $databasConfigArray );
$db->setQuery('your query');
$data = $db->loadObjectList();
Here is a good tutorial showing how to connect to multiple databases in Joomla, there is even source code for helper class.
Also look at this thread Connecting to 3rd party databse in Joomla!?