Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP mysqli_ping() Function.
The PHP mysqli_ping() function accepts a connection object as a parameter, verifies the connection, if the connection is down then it reconnects to the server.
The PHP mysqli_ping() function accepts a connection object as a parameter, verifies the connection, if the connection is down then it reconnects to the server.
Syntax
Following below is the syntax to use this function -
mysqli_ping($con,[$host, $username, $passwd, $dname, $port, $socket, $flags] )
Parameter Details
Sr.No | Parameter & Description |
---|---|
1 | con(Optional) This is an object representing a connection to MySQL Server. |
Return Value
This built-in PHP function returns true if the operation was successful, otherwise false on failure.
PHP Version
This PHP function was first introduced in PHP version 5 and it works in all the later versions.
Example1
The following below is an example which demonstrates the usage of the built-in PHP mysqli_ping() function (in procedural style) -
<?php //Creating the connection $con = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","password","test"); $res = mysqli_ping($con); if($res){ print("Successful....."); }else{ print("Failed......"); } ?>
Output
When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -
Successful.....
Example2
In object oriented style the syntax of this built-in PHP function is $con->ping(); The following is the example of this function in an object oriented style $minus;
<?php //Creating the connection $con = new mysqli("localhost","root","password","test"); $res = $con->ping(); if($res){ print("Successful....."); }else{ print("Failed......"); } ?>
Output
When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -
Successful.....
Example3
The following below is another example of the built-in PHP mysqli_ping() function in an object oriented style $minus;
<?php $connection_mysql = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","password","mydb"); if (mysqli_connect_errno($connection_mysql)){ echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error(); } if (mysqli_ping($connection_mysql)){ echo "Connection is ok!"."\n"; }else{ echo "Error: ". mysqli_error($connection_mysql); } mysqli_close($connection_mysql); ?>
Output
When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -
Connection is ok! Connection was successful
Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about the PHP mysqli_prepare() Function.
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