Philadelphia Reflections

MySQL server has gone away

MySQL timeout? Probably a new error after years of working perfectly, resulting from an ISP change which they will neither acknowledge nor fix. Sound familiar?

Charming people.

Try this:

$db_link = @mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PSWD,'',MYSQL_CLIENT_INTERACTIVE);

... instead of what you used to do:

$db_link = @mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PSWD);

Originally published: Tuesday, July 29, 2008; most-recently modified: Monday, June 04, 2012