0003011: Feature Request for DB connect strings

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0003011

[Quercus]

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10-19-08 21:47

10-27-08 20:52

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ckchris

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normal

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new

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3.1.8

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0003011: Feature Request for DB connect strings

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This is rather trivial, but some PHP applications use the mysql_connect($host, $user, $password, $dbname) method call to connect to the database. The web application form will then ask for this information and doesn't provide you a way to specify a JNDI datasource to use. Thus, when you enter the JNDI datasource as the $host, connection will fail from the Quercus side.

It's true that it's easy to just change the mysql_connect in the PHP file to use the one-argument mysql_connect version. However, since this is specifically a Quercus PHP-Java bridging edge case, I think it may not be a bad idea to have Quercus check for the following edge case in mysql_connect function:

*) If mysql_connect($host,$user,$password,$dbname) is used AND the $host is a JNDI string that starts with "java:", then ignore all the rest of the parameters and accept this as a JNDI string.

I think this will make Quercus even more compatible with existing php apps without having to modify any source files.

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(0003519) ckchris 10-27-08 20:52	I just realized that mysql_connect() does not accept a JNDI URL to connect using the JNDI. Quercus documentation at : http://www.caucho.com/resin/doc/quercus.xtp#databases [^] specifies that you can use mysql_connect(<jndi_string>) to connect. I tried it and it doesn't work. I checked quercus source code and it doesn't look like this is even supported. So what's the primary verdict here? The documentation is misleading.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
10-19-08 21:48	ckchris	New Issue
10-19-08 21:48	ckchris	Issue Monitored: ckchris
10-27-08 20:52	ckchris	Note Added: 0003519

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