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Bug #55741 Warning thrown
Submitted: 2011-09-20 14:47 UTC Modified: 2013-02-18 00:35 UTC
From: patrick_adrichem at hotmail dot com Assigned: mysql (profile)
Status: No Feedback Package: MySQL related
PHP Version: 5.3SVN-2011-09-20 (SVN) OS: linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-09-20 14:47 UTC] patrick_adrichem at hotmail dot com 
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.mysql-ping#refsect1-function.mysql-ping-description
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Mysql_ping is in my vision used to check wether your connection is still alive, by pinging the server since PHP 5.0.38 this function no longer autoreconnects, so its a real "Check if connection is alive" function. However if the connection is not alive it still throws a warning:

mysql_ping(): 8 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource

Which is obvious, because thats why you use this function...

Test script:
---------------
<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

$rConnection = mysql_connect("host", "user", "pass") or die("Could not connect");

sleep(60);

if (false === mysql_ping($rConnection))
{
echo "Connection gone";
}
else
{
echo "Connection alive";
}

Expected result:
----------------
Connection gone

Actual result:
--------------
mysql_ping(): 8 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource
Connection gone

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 [2011-09-20 14:50 UTC] laruence@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: uw
 [2011-09-20 14:50 UTC] laruence@php.net 
ulf, plz look at this.
 [2011-10-18 20:16 UTC] andrey@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Feedback
 [2011-10-18 20:16 UTC] andrey@php.net 
Hi,
I wasn't able to reproduce with 5.3-svn and two builds:
- mysqlnd
- libmysql

Here is my mysqlnd output:
$ ./php -r 'error_reporting(E_ALL);$c=mysql_connect("127.0.0.1","root","root");var_dump($c);var_dump(mysql_query("set @@wait_timeout=5",$c));sleep(7);var_dump(mysql_ping($c));'
resource(6) of type (mysql link)
bool(true)

Warning: mysql_ping(): MySQL server has gone away in Command line code on line 1
bool(false)


Here is my libmysql output:
$ ./php -r 'error_reporting(E_ALL);$c=mysql_connect("127.0.0.1","root","root");var_dump($c);var_dump(mysql_query("set @@wait_timeout=5",$c));sleep(7);var_dump(mysql_ping($c));'
resource(4) of type (mysql link)
bool(true)
bool(false)

I suspect how it could be shut up, but I can't reproduce it to be able to test it.
 [2011-10-18 20:17 UTC] andrey@php.net
-Assigned To: uw +Assigned To: mysql
 [2013-02-18 00:35 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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