Can't connect to local hosted mysql using PHP script - php

Question

I am trying to build a self-hosted PHP site, but I am having trouble connecting to the database from my PHP script.
Please note the following
1). This code allows me to connect to MAMP from my terminus without problem so I know MySQL is working etc
mysql --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8889 --user=root -p
2) When I tried to build a site on a remote hosted platform, this code allowed me to connect from my php script to MySQL on the remove server, so I know there is nothing wrong with this code per se, but it didn't work on my computer.
defined('DB_SERVER') ? null : define("DB_SERVER","host");
defined('DB_USER') ? null : define("DB_USER","username");
defined('DB_PASS') ? null : define("DB_PASS","password");
defined('DB_NAME') ? null : define("DB_NAME","photo_gallery");
3 I have been able to run a self-hosted wordpress site on my computer, but I didn't establish the database connection for that (it's somewhere in the code) so I don't what I'm doing wrong. That site is accessible at the following path. http://localhost:8888/wordpress/ even though it is connected at port 8889 (according to mysql)
4 MAMP tells me that I can connect to the database from my own scripts using this format
Host localhost
Port 8889
User root
Password root
Therefore, I added this line
defined('DB_PORT') ? null : define("DB_PORT","8889");
to this group, like so
defined('DB_SERVER') ? null : define("DB_SERVER","host");
**defined('DB_PORT') ? null : define("DB_PORT","8889");**
defined('DB_USER') ? null : define("DB_USER","username");
defined('DB_PASS') ? null : define("DB_PASS","password");
defined('DB_NAME') ? null : define("DB_NAME","photo_gallery");
but it still didn't work. I'm being told database connection fails when I try to test it.
Any ideas?
EDIT. I tried to put the port next to the localhost but it's not working.
defined('DB_SERVER') ? null : define("DB_SERVER","localhost:8889");
defined('DB_USER') ? null : define("DB_USER","root");
defined('DB_PASS') ? null : define("DB_PASS","root");
defined('DB_NAME') ? null : define("DB_NAME","photo_gallery");
EDIT. The above code was in the config.php which was included into the database.php which is this
<?php
require_once("config.php");
class MySQLDatabase {
private $connection;
function __construct(){
$this->open_connection();
}
public function open_connection(){
$this->connection = mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASS);
if(!$connection){
die("Database connection failed:" . mysql_error());
} else {
$db_select = mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $this->connection);
if (!$db_select) {
die("Database selection failed: " . mysql_error());
}
}
}
public function close_connection(){
if(isset($this->connection)){
mysql_close($this->connection);
unset($this->connection);
}
}
public function query($sql) {
$result = mysql_query($sql, $this->connection);
$this->confirm_query($result);
return $result;
}
public function mysql_prep( $value ) {
$magic_quotes_active = get_magic_quotes_gpc();
$new_enough_php = function_exists( "mysql_real_escape_string" ); // i.e. PHP >= v4.3.0
if( $new_enough_php ) { // PHP v4.3.0 or higher
// undo any magic quote effects so mysql_real_escape_string can do the work
if( $magic_quotes_active ) { $value = stripslashes( $value ); }
$value = mysql_real_escape_string( $value );
} else { // before PHP v4.3.0
// if magic quotes aren't already on then add slashes manually
if( !$magic_quotes_active ) { $value = addslashes( $value ); }
// if magic quotes are active, then the slashes already exist
}
return $value;
}
private function confirm_query($result){
if(!$result){
die("Database query failed:" . mysql_error());
}
}
}
$database = new MySQLDatabase();
?>

Answer 1

What is the output of the following snippet?
<?php
// test.php
$host = 'localhost:8889';
$username = 'root';
$password = 'root';
$database = 'your_database';
if(!$connection = mysql_connect($host, $username, $password))
die('Error connecting to '.$host.'. '.mysql_error());
if(!mysql_select_db($database))
die('Error selecting '.$database.'. '.mysql_error());
echo 'Connection successful.';
?>
If this executes without an error, then you're probably just setting your constants incorrectly. Note that mysql_connect takes the port as part of the host parameter, not as a separate argument.

Answer 2

try 127.0.0.1:3307
it worked for me

Answer 3

Can you try to use:
define("DB_SERVER","127.0.0.1");

Answer 4

important:
checking defined or not is done by defined() but not by comparing it to null so sample:
http://www.php.net/defined
defined('DBSERVER') or define('DBSERVER', 'localhost:8889');
providing port information while making connection is just to add it along with server name i.e if your mysql server is localhost then while connecting just make it
localhost:8889
so your sample script may look like:
$strServer = "localhost:8889";
$strUser = "root";
$strPassword = "root";
$strDB = "test_db";
$conn = #mysql_connect($strServer, $strUser, $strPassword);
if(!$conn) {
die('Unable to connect to database: ' . mysql_error());
}else{
$db=mysql_select_db($strDB);
if(!$db){die('Error Selecting Database: '.$strDB.' [Error : '.mysql_error().']');}
}

Answer 5

Example with the default port 3306 of MySQL:
mysql_connect('localhost:3306', 'root', 'password');
This really makes things easier when copying scripts between the distant server and the local web server.