conflicting error message

[kevwood]

Hello all,

 

Been a while since i have been on here since he lack of using my degree lol.

 

but i am dusting the cob webs of the brain an realising it has all drastically changed since i last used php and mysql.

 

any enough with the blabbing here is my problem!

 

 

i am trying to establish a connection with a database i have set up on a free hosting server.  when i run the code i am getting conflicting messages.

 

here is my code

<?php

$name = "name";
$desc = "description";
$price = "price";
$image = "image";
$prod_type = "prod_type";
$made = "made";
$dist = "distribute";

$server = "localhost";
$db = "a6382499_product";
$user_name = "a6382499_sonic";
$password = "phpfreaks1";

// create connection to db
$conn = new MySQLi($server, $user_name, $password);

// check connection
if (!$conn->connect_error) {
	die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error());
}
echo "Connect successful";

?>

it is giving me this error message when i run the code

 

 

 

Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [mysqli.mysqli]: (28000/1045): Access denied for user 'a6382499_sonic'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in /home/a6382499/public_html/test_connection.php on line 25

 

 

but then i am getting the message that i am connected to the db successfully .

 

any help with this would be great.

[mac_gyver]

this is from the myslqi connect_error documentation -

 

Warning
The mysqli->connect_error property only works properly as of PHP versions 5.2.9 and 5.3.0. Use the mysqli_connect_error() function if compatibility with earlier PHP versions is required.

 

it's recommended that you use the PDO database library, as it is much more consistent and easier to use.

[Barand]

 

if (!$conn->connect_error) {

    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error());

}

echo "Connect successful";

 

Your code "dies" if there is *not* an error!

So you therefore echo "success" but the error gets displayed anyway

 

Note: You can also specify the database with a 4th parameter in your connection.

[kevwood]

thanks for the reply.  i have updated my code with this (this is the PDO correct way i think, please correct me if i am wrong).

// create connection to db
try {
	$conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;$db", $user_name, $password);
// PDO error mode set to exception
	$conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
	echo "Connected to database";
}
// Set veriable to catch error created
catch(PDOException $error)
	{
	echo "Connection failed: " . $error->getMessage();
}

and i am getting this message

 

 

 

Connection failed: SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'a6382499_sonic'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

 

 

my password and user name are 100% correct i have re entered them and updated them a few times to make sure of this

[Barand]

No surprises there. If the username and password were wrong for mysqli then they will still be wrong for a PDO connection. You need to check the usernames and password on the server.

[kevwood]

i have checked the user name and password a number of times and even changed the password to phpfreaks1 while i was uploading it on here for security reasons even though it only for testing anyway.

[kevwood]

it was a problem with the server name, i had to specify the name of the server my db was being held on.

 

is this simply because it is a free hosting site and my site and database are being held on different servers?