Re: failed connection to postgres

At 10:38 AM 3/31/05, SG Edwards wrote:

>If I use the following code to connect to postgres using PHP:
>
>echo "trying to connect to the database...";
>
>$conn =pg_connect("host=localhost dbname=milker dbuser=s0460205
>dbpass=password");
>
>if (!$conn) {
>echo "no connection";
>}
>?>
>
>However, the connection is not made. If I try to run it from the command 
>line in
>UNIX I get the following error:
>
>PHP warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: invalid
>connection option "dbuser" in 
>/home/s0460205/public_html/first.php on
>line 12
>
>The username, database name and password are definately right and my 
>database is
>on the same server as the script (thus I assume localhost for host?) so should
>this not work?



READ THE ERROR MESSAGE!!  It's telling you that 'dbuser' is not a valid 
connection option - you won't find 'dbuser' mentioned anywhere on the man 
page (perhaps you should read it more carefully too):
         http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-connect.php