Any suggestions on how we can create dynamic database for each user using PHP (as an when they register)? I am using the below code - it works on the local server, but not working in the live server on digitalocean. Is this a permission issue to create DB?
public function setupNewDatabaseWithSubdomainName($domain_name = '') {
$db2 = array(
'dsn' => '', 'hostname' => $this->hostname, 'username' => $this->username, 'password' => $this->password, 'database' => $domain_name,
'dbdriver' => 'mysqli', 'dbprefix' => '', 'pconnect' => FALSE, 'db_debug' => (ENVIRONMENT !== 'production'),
'cache_on' => FALSE, 'cachedir' => '', 'char_set' => 'utf8', 'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci', 'swap_pre' => '',
'encrypt' => FALSE, 'compress' => FALSE, 'stricton' => FALSE, 'failover' => array(), 'save_queries' => TRUE
);
$sql_db = "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS " . $domain_name;
$this->db->query($sql_db);
print_r($this->db->error());
$this->dbNew = $this->load->database($db2, TRUE);
$arr_table_lists = $this->retun_all_tables_from_database($this->db->database);
foreach ($arr_table_lists as $tbl_name) {
$sql_new = "";
$sql_new = "SHOW CREATE TABLE " . $this->db->database . "." . $tbl_name->table_name;
$query = $this->db->query($sql_new);
$result = $query->result_array();
$sql_new = strtolower($result[0]['Create Table']);
$sql_new = str_replace("create table", "create table if not exists ", $sql_new);
$this->dbNew->query($sql_new);
}
}
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Hi there,
Yes indeed if you are not using the root MySQL user it could be related to the privileges of the non-root user that you are using.
What you could do is grant the user privileges to either all databases or better all databases with a specific prefix.
- To grant privileges to all databases you could run the following:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'your_user'@'%';
- To keep things a bit more secure, you could introduce a prefix for all of your databases, for example, you could add a keyword like
saasoryour_app_namebefore each database, then you could use the following query to grant privileges to your user to all databases that start with that specific keyword:
GRANT ALL ON `yourPrefix\_%`.* TO 'your_user'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
That way your_user will have access and be able to create any databases that start with yourPrefix\_.
If you take the second approach you would need to update this line here in your code to include the new prefix:
$sql_db = "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS yourPrefix\_" . $domain_name;
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby
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