On 7/12/12, Gibbs <li...@danielgibbs.net> wrote:
> On 12/07/12 12:29, Nick Edwards wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> We have a program that manages users, throughout all database calls
>>
>> created as:
>> $connect = mysql_connect($db_host--other variables);
>> mysql_query("Delete from clients where id=$User");
>>
>> All this works good, but, we need, in the delete function to delete
>> from another database
>>
>> $connmy=mysql_connect("host","user","pass");
>> mysql_select_db("vsq",$connmy);
>> mysql_query("DELETE from userprefs where
>> clientr='$User'");
>> $mysql_close($connmy);
>> this fails, unless we use a mysql_close prior to it, and then
>> reconnect to original database after we run this delete, how can we
>> get around this without closing and reopening?
>> We have a perl script doing similar for manual runs, and it works
>> well knowing that $connmy is not $connect, I'm sure there is a simple
>> way to tell php but I'm darned if I can see it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Niki
>>
> You need to make a new link. So you would add TRUE to the end of the
> second connection.
>
> $connmy=mysql_connect("host","user","pass", TRUE);
>
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php
>
Thanks, will give that a shot
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