Beware about writing something like
<?php
function getdb_FAILS() {
return pg_connect("...") or die('connection failed');
}
?>
It will return a boolean. This will appear to be fine if you don't use the return value as a db connection handle, but will fail if you do.
Instead, use:
<?php
function getdb() {
$db = pg_connect("...") or die('connection failed');
return $db;
}
?>
which actually returns a handle.
pg_connect
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
pg_connect — PostgreSQL 接続をオープンする
説明
resource pg_connect
( string $connection_string
[, int $connect_type
] )
pg_connect() は、connection_string で指定された情報を用いてデータベースとの接続をオープンします。
同じ connection_string 引数で 2 回 pg_connect() 関数がコールされた場合は、 connect_type に PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_NEW を指定していない限り 既存の接続が返されます。
複数のパラメータをサポートする古い構文 $conn = pg_connect("host", "port", "options", "tty", "dbname") は推奨されません。
パラメータ
- connection_string
-
すべてデフォルトのパラメータを使用する場合には connection_string を空にすることが可能です。 または 1 つ以上のパラメータを空白で区切って指定することも可能です。 個々のパラメータは keyword = value の形式で 設定します。等号の前後の空白はあってもなくてもかまいません。 空の値や空白を含む値を指定する場合は、その値をシングルクォートで 囲みます（例: keyword = 'a value'）。値の中に シングルクォートやバックスラッシュが含まれる場合は、それらを バックスラッシュでエスケープする必要があります（例: \' および \\）。
現在利用できるパラメータは以下のとおりです。 host , hostaddr , port , dbname , user , password , connect_timeout , options , tty （無視されます）, sslmode , requiressl （非推奨。代わりに sslmode を推奨します） および service 。これらのうち実際にどの パラメータが使えるかは、PostgreSQL のバージョンに依存します。
- connect_type
-
PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_NEW が渡された場合は、 たとえ connection_string が既存の接続と まったく同一であっても新しい接続をオープンします。
返り値
成功した場合に PostgreSQL の接続リソース、失敗した場合に FALSE を返します。
例
例1 pg_connect() の使用法
<?php
$dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=mary");
// "mary"という名前のデータベースに接続
$dbconn2 = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=mary");
// "localhost"のポート"5432"にて"mary"という名前のデータベースに接続
$dbconn3 = pg_connect("host=sheep port=5432 dbname=mary user=lamb password=foo");
// ユーザ名とパスワードを指定してホスト"sheep"上の"mary"という名前のデータベースに接続
$conn_string = "host=sheep port=5432 dbname=test user=lamb password=bar";
$dbconn4 = pg_connect($conn_string);
// ユーザ名とパスワードを指定してホスト"sheep"上の"test"という名前のデータベースへ接続
?>
pg_connect
bgalloway at citycarshare dot org
28-Mar-2008 11:33
28-Mar-2008 11:33
tim at buttersideup dot com
29-Dec-2007 03:41
29-Dec-2007 03:41
It's not explicitly stated here, but you can also connect to PostgreSQL via a UNIX domain socket by leaving the host empty. This should have less overhead than using TCP e.g.:
$dbh = new PDO('pgsql:user=exampleuser dbname=exampledb password=examplepass');
In fact as the C library call PQconnectdb underlies this implementation, you can supply anything that this library call would take - the "pgsql:" prefix gets stripped off before PQconnectdb is called, and if you supply any of the optional arguments (e.g. user), then these arguments will be added to the string that you supplied... Check the docs for your relevant PostgreSQL client library: e.g.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/libpq-connect.html
If you really want, you can use ';'s to separate your arguments - these will just be converted to spaces before PQconnectdb is called.
Tim.
xourge
20-Aug-2007 01:17
20-Aug-2007 01:17
remember that when you use a blank password there will be an error because of:
password= dbname= (...)
to fix this problem use '' in your $options variable
example:
$options = " host='localhost' port='5432' user='postgres' password='' dbname='test' ";
pg_connect($options);
*** careful: I used double ' after password=, not "
Sohel Taslim
03-Aug-2007 11:20
03-Aug-2007 11:20
I got the same problem but I have to solve that in different way.
In my postgresql.conf file the following was commented.
So, I active that under Connection Settings-
# - Connection Settings –
tcpip_socket = true
borovik -at- gmail
03-Apr-2007 11:06
03-Apr-2007 11:06
"If you use pg_connect('host=localhost port=5432 user=my_username password=my_password dbname=my_dbname') and you get the following error:
"Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host localhost and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?"
"
I solved this error just by setting listen_addresses = '*' in the postgresql.conf file. This error occurs probably despite of a name resolution to localhost, given in the "host" parameter. So you can set the host in the pg_connect() function.
Anonymous
11-Apr-2005 01:51
11-Apr-2005 01:51
The values accepted by pg_connect's sslmode argument are: disable, allow, prefer, require
phpnet at benjamin dot schulz dot name
01-Sep-2004 08:28
01-Sep-2004 08:28
if you need to open a new connection handle (i.e. for multiple pg_send_query()) use PGSQL_CONNECT_FORCE_NEW as second parameter to pg_connect()
Cybertinus
16-Dec-2003 06:47
16-Dec-2003 06:47
If you use pg_connect('host=localhost port=5432 user=my_username password=my_password dbname=my_dbname') and you get the following error:
"Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host localhost and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?"
then you should try to leave the host= and port= parts out of the connection string. This sounds strange, but this is an "option" of Postgre. If you have not activated the TCP/IP port in postgresql.conf then postgresql doesn't accept any incoming requests from an TCP/IP port. If you use host= in your connection string you are going to connect to Postgre via TCP/IP, so that's not going to work. If you leave the host= part out of your connection string you connect to Postgre via the Unix domain sockets, which is faster and more secure, but you can't connect with the database via any other PC as the localhost.
xzilla at users dot sourceforge dot net
10-Dec-2003 01:22
10-Dec-2003 01:22
regarding the note from matias at nospam dot projectcast dot com
on 12-Feb-2002 01:16, you do not need a user in the database with the same name a your web user with ANY version of postgresql. The only time that would be a requirement ifs if you set your postgresql server to only allow IDENT based authentication (which IIRC is the default on Red Hat systems, which might be what lead to the confusion). For more info on the various authentication methods allowed by postgresql, check out http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/client-authentication.html
derry at siliconriver.com dot au
08-Aug-2003 12:48
08-Aug-2003 12:48
pg_connect seems to support SSL connections, on systems where Postgres has been compiled with ssl, i'm assuming this is since psql uses libpq to connect.
pg_connect can successfully connect, and use the "requiressl" argument.
jtate at php dot net
01-Jan-2003 07:36
01-Jan-2003 07:36
If you use host=HOSTNAME in your pg_connect string when connecting to PostgreSQL databases newer than 7.1, you need to make sure that your postmaster daemon is started with the "-i" option. Otherwise the connection will fail. See http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?client-authentication.html for client authentication documentation.
khyri at khyri dot com
01-Nov-2002 09:23
01-Nov-2002 09:23
After upgrading to PHP 4.2.3 from PHP 4.1.2 (Red Hat Linux Advanced Server with Stronghold 4.0) in order to manually compile in MHASH support, I discovered that Postgres support has disappeared, despite being specified on the command line, and compiling with no errors.
FATAL: Undefined function: pg_connect()
Confirmed by looking at the output of phpinfo() and comparing it to the output pre-upgrade - no mention of PostgreSQL in the new one.
Detective work led me to find that the old pgsql.so in /usr/lib/php4 was untouched, and the new one had ended up in /usr/lib/20020429 instead.
The fix was to edit config_vars.mk after configuration to change the value of EXTENSION_DIR, and then compile.
Not quite sure where 20020429 came from, looks like a left-over value from development testing...
Anyway, in case any one else has a similar problem, thought I'd document it here, as a problem with pg_connect is where this will first surface as a symptom.
Helio Ferenhof <d-m at eudoramail dot com>
19-Feb-2002 06:20
19-Feb-2002 06:20
Connection Hint:
Do you always write at the code the username and password to connect to your PostgreSQL database !?
What if your username or password changes?
Create a connection include file.
---
connection.inc
---
<?php
$connection = pg_connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=DATABASENAME user=USERNAME password=PASSWORD")
or die ("Nao consegui conectar ao PostGres --> " . pg_last_error($conn));
?>
// you can use $database name and pass it from the php file if you connect into different databases.
---
Phpfile.php
---
<?php
include('connection.php'); // Include the connection to the databank THEN start your SQL Job :)
$result=pg_exec("SELECT field FROM table WHERE field = '$something' "); // Sample of SQL QUERY
$fetch = pg_fetch_row($query_st); // Sample of SQL QUERY
pg_close($connection); // Close this connection
?>
[]s
Helio Ferenhof
d-m@eudoramail.com
matias at nospam dot projectcast dot com
13-Feb-2002 06:16
13-Feb-2002 06:16
At least with Postgres 7.2, connecting to local postgresdatabase requires a user in the database with the same name as the user running apache, or the connection fails.
rolf at sir-wum dot de
13-Oct-2001 09:54
13-Oct-2001 09:54
pg_connect() won't work with the authentication method 'crypt' in the pg_hba.conf. Took me an hour to figure that out till I remeberd some other issues with windows missing the crypt() call.
kayotix at yahoo dot com
15-Sep-2000 03:54
15-Sep-2000 03:54
Little note that is buried in the install somewhere. In Php 3, PostgreSQL support was activated by adding --with-postgresql=[DIR] to the options passed to ./configure. With Php 4.0.2 (on Linux) the parameter was --with-pgsql. The only place I found this was in the installing PHP on Unix section of the manual.
leace at post dot cz
22-Jul-2000 06:26
22-Jul-2000 06:26
If you use PostgreSQL users for authenticating into your pg database rather than using your own authentication, always specify host directive in pg_connect and edit pg_hba.conf to authenticate from this host accordingly. Otherwise, PHP will connect as 'local' using UNIX domain sockets, which is set in pg_hba.conf to 'trust' by default (so you can connect using psql on console without specifying password) and everyone can connect to db _without password_ .