Modules/MTA-MySQL/mysql connect

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Makes a connection to a MySQL server and returns a handler to it.

Syntax

handler mysql_connect ( string hostname, string username, string password, string database, [ int port=3306, string unix_socket=nil, string client_flags=""] )

Required arguments

  • hostname: The hostname to connect to
  • username: The database username
  • password: The username password
  • database: The starting database

Optional arguments

NOTE: When using optional arguments, you might need to supply all arguments before the one you wish to use. For more information on optional arguments, see optional arguments.

  • port: The MySQL port
  • unix_socket: When connecting in unix systems to a local database, the path for the unix socket (usually /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock)
  • client_flags: The connection flags, with the format "flag1|flag2|flag3". The list of flags is:
    • compress: Use compression protocol.
    • found_rows: Return the number of found (matched) rows, not the number of changed rows.
    • ignore_sigpipe: Prevents the client library from installing a SIGPIPE signal handler. This can be used to avoid conflicts with a handler that the application has already installed.
    • ignore_space: Allow spaces after function names. Makes all functions names reserved words.
    • interactive: Allow interactive_timeout seconds (instead of wait_timeout seconds) of inactivity before closing the connection. The client's session wait_timeout variable is set to the value of the session interactive_timeout variable.
    • local_files: Enable LOAD DATA LOCAL handling.
    • no_schema: Don't allow the db_name.tbl_name.col_name syntax. This is for ODBC. It causes the parser to generate an error if you use that syntax, which is useful for trapping bugs in some ODBC programs.

Returns

A valid MySQL handler if it was able to connect, or nil if it was unable.

Example

Example 1: This example makes a MySQL connection and checks if it was succesful. 

handler = mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password", "mta_users") -- Establish the connection
if ( not handler ) then -- The connection failed
  outputDebugString("Unable to connect to the MySQL server")
else
  mysql_close(handler) -- Close the connection
end

See also

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