A little note about multiple simultaneous connections to different hosts...
I work on a site that pulls content primarily from one db but uses a db on a foreign server to verify licensing. One might expect the following to work:
<?php
// Open the connection to the primary db
$res1 = mysql_connect($host1, $user1, $pass1);
mysql_select_db($db1);
// Open connection to the license server
$res2 = mysql_connect($host2, $user2, $pass2);
mysql_select_db($db2, $res2);
// Pull license data and close when done
mysql_query($check_sql, $res2);
// ...
mysql_close($res2);
// Now pull content from the primary db
// Not specifying the resource should default to the last open db
mysql_query($query);
// ...
?>
Turns out this last query, since it cant find an active connection, will try to connect with mysql_connect() with no paramaters. But if instead you do it as mysql_query($query, $res1), or alternatively, run the mysql_connect for this host again then it works fine. Thus, it doesnt seem to be possible to have code with an overarching "global" db connection interspersed with temporary connections to another host/db....
mysql_close
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
mysql_close — cierra el enlace con MySQL
Descripción
Devuelve TRUE si todo se llevó a cabo correctamente, FALSE en caso de fallo.
mysql_close() cierra el enlace con la base MySQL que esta asociada con el identificador de enlace específicado. Si no se específica el identificador de enlace, se asume por defecto el último enlace.
Note: Normalmente no es necesario ya que la aperturas no-persistentes son cerradas automaticamente al final de la ejecución del script. Vea tambié liberar recursos.
mysql_close() no cerrará los enlaces persistentes generados con mysql_pconnect().
Example #1 Ejemplo de MySQL close
<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
if (!$link) {
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo 'Connected successfully';
mysql_close($link);
?>
Ver también: mysql_connect(), mysql_pconnect().
mysql_close
13-Dec-2005 01:20
29-Apr-2005 07:03
As at 5.0.x and 4.3.x: This function should never be used with shared links; instead you should set your link variables to null.
(This explains red's and beer's () problems in previous comments)
Here is how shared links work:
- Each link is a resource. mysql_connect() by default looks for a resource with the same paramaters. If one exists, it will return the existing resource.
- Every assignment of that resource to a variable increases the resource's reference count.
- When the reference is decremented to zero, the underlying TCP/socket connection is closed.
- Every assignment of a variable away from that resource decrements the reference count. (This includes a function level variable going out of scope)
- mysql_close() also decrements the reference count.
Note the last two points: mysql_close() _and_ reassignment of a variable decrement the link's reference count.
A common mistake is a function like:
<?php
function dothings() {
$link = mysql_open(...);
// .. do some queries ..
mysql_close($link)
$link = null;
}
?>
this will decrement the counter twice, possibly closing the underlying connection and causing errors in other parts of the program.
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30525 "this is not a bug but just how it works"
03-Dec-2004 09:26
Be careful when using multiple links to connect to same database (with same username). Unless you specify explicitly in mysql_connect() to create a new link, it will return an already open link. If that would be closed by mysql_close(), it will also (obviously) close the other connection, since the link is the same.
Had lot of trouble figuring it out, since in <=4.3.6 there was a bug which didn't close the connection, but after the patch to >=4.3.7, all my application broke down because of a single script that did this.
