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1. feelie75
   Member

   I'm sure this ISNT the proper solution, heh, but since it worked I thought I'd point it out.

   After Step 1 failed many times, I set out to debug it. My travel took me here:
   bb-includes/db-mysql.php

   $this->$dbhname = @mysql_connect( $server->host, $server->user, $server->pass, true );
   if (!$this->$dbhname)
   return false;

   That was failing and returning false everytime. I couldn't figure it out. I printed out the hose and user and password, and it looked good. I could connect just fine from a shell prompt.

   After confirming that it actually WAS connecting, and that it was simply the lack of $this->$dbhname that was causing the failure, I just commented out the return false; and VOILA! It worked! Installation finished and I can post messages, etc, etc, everything seems fine.

   Soooo... What's up with that?! hehe. $dbhname was == 'dbh_local'.

   Not sure what other details I can provide. Just thought I'd share the rather strange experience and oddness that I'd have to hack the db_connect code to get the install to complete... Weird!!

   Posted 2 months ago #

2. sambauers
   Key Master

   Were you getting an error message when it didn't work? It would be useful to know it if you did.

   Posted 2 months ago #

3. chrishajer
   Member

   What host are you using?

   Posted 2 months ago #

4. feelie75
   Member

   This is the code that was making the call and getting the return false returned to it, thus resulting in this error:

   if (!$bbdb->db_connect('SHOW TABLES;')) {
   $this->step_status[1] = 'incomplete';
   $this->strings[1]['messages']['error'][] = __('There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.
   Please check the settings, then try again.');
   return 'error';
   }

   db_connect was returning false when it detected $this->$dbhname was undef. So by removing the return false when that happened, the db_connect call then succeeded and all was happy :).

   To answer the other person, I'm hosting on localhost. I have an old PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.4.11 or something. It's a spare computer; thought I'd stick a forum on it and learn some php.

   Posted 2 months ago #

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