And yes, I've tried with port 3306 - it works fine. And it also works fine with my non-standart port using mysql_connect().
So it's definetly a bug or missing future in PDO.

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip

Can't reproduce.

Well, I've just downloaded php5-win32-latest.zip - it's the same one (Aug 9 2005 ) and tried with it. The bug is still there for me.
Do i need to use "mysql:host=localhost;port=6733;dbname=www" dsn or there is another syntax to specify port?

I've just copied your DSN and it worked for me.
But IIRC it's possible that it automagically uses local socket on my Linux, which is not available on Win32.

Wez, could you plz check it out?

Does it work if you change the hostname to 127.0.0.1?

I've tried it with latest (Aug 30 2005 08:37:40) build, and using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost works.

I'm using this test script:
-------------------------------------------
<?php
if(!isset($argv)){
  header('Content-type: text/plain');
  header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=dbotest.txt");
}

$cfg['host'] = 'localhost';
//$cfg['host'] = '127.0.0.1';
$cfg['port'] = 6733;
$cfg['database'] = 'www-new';
$cfg['username'] = 'pasha';
$cfg['password'] = '****';

connect_mysql($cfg);
echo "\n";
connect_pdo_mysql($cfg);

function connect_mysql($cfg){
  $dsn = $cfg['host'].':'.$cfg['port'];
  echo "Connecting to MYSQL (DSN = {$dsn}).\n";
  @$res = mysql_connect($dsn, $cfg['username'], $cfg['password']);
  echo 'Result: '.($res?'OK':mysql_error())."\n";
  return $res;
}
function connect_pdo_mysql($cfg){
  $dsn = "mysql:host={$cfg['host']};port={$cfg['port']};dbname={$cfg['database']}";
  echo "Connecting to PDO_MYSQL (DSN = {$dsn}).\n";
  try{
    $res = new PDO($dsn, $cfg['username'], $cfg['password']);
    echo "Result: OK\n";
    return $res;
  }catch(PDOException $ex){
    echo 'Result: '.$ex->getMessage()."\n";
    return false;
  }
}
?>
-------------------------------------------

And this is the result when using localhost:
------------------------------------------
Connecting to MYSQL (DSN = localhost:6733).
Result: OK

Connecting to PDO_MYSQL (DSN = mysql:host=localhost;port=6733;dbname=www-new).
Result: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2003] Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)
------------------------------------------

I've also checked it with version 5.1.0b3 (Jul 14 2005 20:32:24), and it works fine for 127.0.0.1

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip

try a new 5.1 snapshot please.  Your bug is only occurs when 
you use 'localhost' (and not 127.0.0.1), so please check that.

Thanks,

George

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I think there is some sort of bug in mysql client library. It just doesn't want to use tcp connection if you connect to localhost. For example if I add -P 3306 to mysql client binary, netstat will show the unix connection, not the tcp. Only if i use -h 127.0.0.1 mysql will use tcp (-h localhost doesn't solve anything).

Hi Friends 
I am trying to connect a mysql and php5 with Apache2
PHP is working ok 
I can show php files no problem 
but when i try to connect with mysql 
nothing is happending 
simply nothing as I have tried this script as well 
I have tried my old scripts as well 
not no response it does not show any thing 
not even error msg. 
any idea I am lost ...
Thanks 
Shanewaj

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