Re: failed connection to postgres

I think you want "user" instead of "dbuser" in the pg_connect function:

$conn =pg_connect("host=localhost dbname=milker user=s0460205
dbpass=password");

Heather Johnson

SG Edwards wrote:
>
> If I use the following code to connect to postgres using PHP:
>
> <?php
> echo "trying to connect to the database...";
>
> $conn =pg_connect("host=localhost dbname=milker dbuser=s0460205
> dbpass=password");
>
> if (!$conn) {
> echo "no connection";
> }
> ?>
>
> However, the connection is not made. If I try to run it from the command line in
> UNIX I get the following error:
>
> PHP warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: invalid
> connection option &quot;dbuser&quot; in /home/s0460205/public_html/first.php on
> line 12
>
> The username, database name and password are definately right and my database is
> on the same server as the script (thus I assume localhost for host?) so should
> this not work?
>
> Many thanks for your help
>
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