Hi,
I created a managed MySQL cluster, but I’m having problems connecting to it from my PHP script. I can’t seem to find a tutorial online yet.
How do I connect to a DO managed MySQL DB from PHP using mysqli_connect ?
Normally, I connect using syntax like:
$con = mysqli_connect("hostname", "user", "password", "database");
mysqli_set_charset($con, "utf8");
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
Any help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Wyatt
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Hello,
I’ve just tested your snippet and there are two things that I’ve noticed:
Make sure to append the port number to your host otherwise it would not work as the Managed databases are listening on a non-default MySQL port
Make sure to update the Auth type of the Database User and set it to
mysql_native_password
To do that you could do is just create a new user with mysql_native_password
Or you could adjust this for your current user with:
After that you should be able to connect as normal.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby