Re: Help Conecting to a database from PHP

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Hello.

David Cruz Ramos (pon 1. grudzien 2003 16:41):
> And Apache and PHP are working well....I can make and use the PHP functions
> in my web pages. Recently I've downloaded and installed PostgreSQL 7.3.2,
> [...]
> nobody user in the table of the databse, and my pg_hba.conf seems to be ok
> ( localhost all all trust ). The browser even not give any error or
> something....it just don't work...

Maybe some error messages are in logfiles? Where are log files for yout
postgresql and for your web server?

I suppose you have used wrong format. The line in pg_hba.conf should read:
host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust

> I think I'm using the function in the correct way: $conn = pg_connect
> ("localhost","","","","mydbname");

If I remember correctly this form has been deprecated...

> I've tried too: $conn = pg_connect ("dbname=mydbname");
> [...]
> I'm starting the database server in this way:
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> thanks....
>
> does somebody know what can I do?

I suppose you may safely drop listening on TCP/IP connections. "local"
connections should be fine.
In that case insert a line into pg_hba.conf:
local all all trust
(...if you want to do it in fast but extremely unsecure way.)

Connecting from PHP you may try to use explicit username, hovewer I think your
problem is in this pg_hba.conf's line with localhost.
Even if your hba_conf is OK, have you enabled "tcpip_socket" in
postgresql.conf?

Maybe there are conflicts with versions of modules used by PHP and your
postgres? Have you had an older version of PostgreSQL before? Have you
recompiled PHP, apache? Just guessing...

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