22.9.4. MySQL Functions (PDO_MYSQL) (`MySQL (PDO)`)

22.9.4.1. PDO_MYSQL DSN

PDO_MYSQL is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO) interface to enable access from PHP to MySQL 3.x, 4.x and 5.x databases.

PDO_MYSQL will take advantage of native prepared statement support present in MySQL 4.1 and higher. If you're using an older version of the mysql client libraries, PDO will emulate them for you.

Warning

Beware: Some MySQL table types (storage engines) do not support transactions. When writing transactional database code using a table type that does not support transactions, MySQL will pretend that a transaction was initiated successfully. In addition, any DDL queries issued will implicitly commit any pending transactions.

Use --with-pdo-mysql[=DIR] to install the PDO MySQL extension, where the optional [=DIR] is the MySQL base install directory. If mysqlnd is passed as [=DIR], then the MySQL native driver will be used.

Optionally, the --with-mysql-sock[=DIR] sets to location to the MySQL unix socket pointer for all MySQL extensions, including PDO_MYSQL. If unspecified, the default locations are searched.

Optionally, the --with-zlib-dir[=DIR] is used to set the path to the libz install prefix.

$ ./configure --with-pdo-mysql --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql/mysql.sock

SSL support is enabled using the appropriate PDO_MySQL constants, which is equivalent to calling the MySQL C API function mysql_ssl_set(). Also, SSL cannot be enabled with PDO::setAttribute because the connection already exists. See also the MySQL documentation about connecting to MySQL with SSL.

Table 22.60. Changelog

Version	Description
5.4.0	MySQL client libraries 4.1 and below are no longer supported.
5.3.9	Added SSL support with mysqlnd and OpenSSL.
5.3.7	Added SSL support with libmysqlclient and OpenSSL.

The constants below are defined bythis driver, and will only be available when the extension has been eithercompiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime. In addition, thesedriver-specific constants should only be used if you are using this driver.Using driver-specific attributes with another driver may result inunexpected behaviour. PDO::getAttribute may be used toobtain the PDO_ATTR_DRIVER_NAME attribute to check thedriver, if your code can run against multiple drivers.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY (integer)

If this attribute is set to TRUE on a PDOStatement, the MySQL driver will use the buffered versions of the MySQL API. If you're writing portable code, you should use PDOStatement::fetchAll instead.

Example 22.212. Forcing queries to be buffered in mysql

<?phpif ($db->getAttribute(PDO::ATTR_DRIVER_NAME) == 'mysql') {    $stmt = $db->prepare('select * from foo',        array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY => true));} else {    die("my application only works with mysql; I should use \$stmt->fetchAll() instead");}?>

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_LOCAL_INFILE (integer)

Enable LOAD LOCAL INFILE.

Note, this constant can only be used in the driver_options array when constructing a new database handle.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND (integer)

Command to execute when connecting to the MySQL server. Will automatically be re-executed when reconnecting.

Note, this constant can only be used in the driver_options array when constructing a new database handle.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_READ_DEFAULT_FILE (integer)

Read options from the named option file instead of from my.cnf. This option is not available if mysqlnd is used, because mysqlnd does not read the mysql configuration files.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_READ_DEFAULT_GROUP (integer)

Read options from the named group from my.cnf or the file specified with MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_FILE . This option is not available if mysqlnd is used, because mysqlnd does not read the mysql configuration files.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE (integer)

Maximum buffer size. Defaults to 1 MiB. This constant is not supported when compiled against mysqlnd.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_DIRECT_QUERY (integer)

Perform direct queries, don't use prepared statements.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_FOUND_ROWS (integer)

Return the number of found (matched) rows, not the number of changed rows.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_IGNORE_SPACE (integer)

Permit spaces after function names. Makes all functions names reserved words.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_COMPRESS (integer)

Enable network communication compression. This is not supported when compiled against mysqlnd.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA (integer)

The file path to the SSL certificate authority.

This exists as of PHP 5.3.7.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CAPATH (integer)

The file path to the directory that contains the trusted SSL CA certificates, which are stored in PEM format.

This exists as of PHP 5.3.7.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CERT (integer)

The file path to the SSL certificate.

This exists as of PHP 5.3.7.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CIPHER (integer)

A list of one or more permissible ciphers to use for SSL encryption, in a format understood by OpenSSL. For example: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA

This exists as of PHP 5.3.7.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_KEY (integer)

The file path to the SSL key.

This exists as of PHP 5.3.7.

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

Table 22.61. PDO_MYSQL Configuration Options

Name	Default	Changeable
pdo_mysql.default_socket	"/tmp/mysql.sock"	PHP_INI_SYSTEM
pdo_mysql.debug	NULL	PHP_INI_SYSTEM

Here's a short explanation of the configuration directives.

pdo_mysql.default_socket string: Sets a Unix domain socket. This value can either be set at compile time if a domain socket is found at configure. This ini setting is Unix only.
pdo_mysql.debug boolean: Enables debugging for PDO_MYSQL. This setting is only available when PDO_MYSQL is compiled against mysqlnd and in PDO debug mode.

22.9.4. MySQL Functions (PDO_MYSQL) (MySQL (PDO))

22.9.4. MySQL Functions (PDO_MYSQL) (`MySQL (PDO)`)