MySQL (PDO)

&reftitle.intro; PDO_MYSQL is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO) interface to enable access from PHP to MySQL 3.x, 4.x and 5.x databases. PDO_MYSQL will take advantage of native prepared statement support present in MySQL 4.1 and higher. If you're using an older version of the mysql client libraries, PDO will emulate them for you. Beware: Some MySQL table types (storage engines) do not support transactions. When writing transactional database code using a table type that does not support transactions, MySQL will pretend that a transaction was initiated successfully. In addition, any DDL queries issued will implicitly commit any pending transactions.

&reference.pdo-mysql.configure; &reference.pdo-mysql.constants; &reference.pdo-mysql.ini; PDO_MYSQL DSN Connecting to MySQL databases &reftitle.description; The PDO_MYSQL Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements: DSN prefix The DSN prefix is mysql:. host The hostname on which the database server resides. port The port number where the database server is listening. dbname The name of the database. unix_socket The MySQL Unix socket (shouldn't be used with host or port). charset The character set. See the character set concepts documentation for more information. Prior to PHP 5.3.6, this element was silently ignored. The same behaviour can be partly replicated with the PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND driver option, as the following example shows. The method in the below example can only be used with character sets that share the same lower 7 bit representation as ASCII, such as ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. Users using character sets that have different representations (such as UTF-16 or Big5) must use the charset option provided in PHP 5.3.6 and later versions. 'SET NAMES utf8', ); $dbh = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password, $options); ?> ]]> &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 5.3.6 Prior to version 5.3.6, charset was ignored. &reftitle.examples; The following example shows a PDO_MYSQL DSN for connecting to MySQL databases: More complete examples: &reftitle.notes; When the host name is set to "localhost", then the connection to the server is made thru a domain socket. If PDO_MYSQL is compiled against libmysql then the location of the socket file is at libmysql's compiled in location. If PDO_MYSQL is compiled against mysqlnd a default socket can be set thru the pdo_mysql.default_socket setting.