I’m trying to connect to a database that I have just set up and configured.
I’m using PDO but is dosen’t seem to work, I get this error message:
ERROR: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2003] Can't connect to MySQL server on 'xxxxxxxxx' (111)
Notice: Undefined variable: pdo in /var/www/html/xxxx/xxxx on line 21
I read in another thread that errors like these might be caused by the fact that PDO dosen’t come installed with the standard mysql installation?
How can I install PDO? My version of PHP is PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14
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In order to use PDO module, you’ll also need to install the php5-mysql You can do so with:
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
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