http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Topic: Does the order of parameters in db-mysqli.php matter? en Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:43:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/does-the-order-of-parameters-in-db-mysqliphp-matter#post-11211 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:36:17 +0000 chrishajer 11211@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks Sam. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/does-the-order-of-parameters-in-db-mysqliphp-matter#post-11207 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:47:34 +0000 sambauers 11207@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>The database is selected a few lines down on line 83.</p> <p>The socket (final and optional) parameter is not used as socket style connections aren't supported. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/does-the-order-of-parameters-in-db-mysqliphp-matter#post-11201 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:57:18 +0000 chrishajer 11201@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Line 78 in db-mysqli.php looks like this:</p> <p><code>$this-&gt;$dbhname = @mysqli_connect( $server-&gt;host, $server-&gt;user, $server-&gt;pass, null, $server-&gt;port );</code></p> <p>I thought the order of the parameters was important, and should be:</p> <p>host, user, pass, dbname, port, socket</p> <p>From looking at line 78, it would seem that the dbname is set to null, and the socket is not used since it's just not there. Is that intentional? Maybe the database name is set someplace else and is not needed here for this connection? Just asking because it seemed weird to me.</p> <p>Thanks. </p>