Thread: connect to postgres server without internet connection with php script

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to connect to a postgres server without TCP/IP connection
from a php script (ie: using unix domain socket) ?
If php cannot do this, do I have to use libpq C library? or is there any
other way to do it?

thanks,
- reynard

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:44:36PM -0500, Reynard Hilman wrote:
> Is it possible to connect to a postgres server without TCP/IP connection
> from a php script (ie: using unix domain socket) ?
Yes, php its doing this by default (no hostname in the connect string)
on my linux box.

Greetings,
-tb
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Thomas Beutin                             tb@laokoon.IN-Berlin.DE
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Reynard Hilman wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Is it possible to connect to a postgres server without TCP/IP connection
> from a php script (ie: using unix domain socket) ?
> If php cannot do this, do I have to use libpq C library? or is there any
> other way to do it?

On the same box, yes.  Just don't include a host entry in your connect
function:

$conn = pg_connect("user=bubba dbname=bo_bob_brain");

should work.

>
>
>Yes, php its doing this by default (no hostname in the connect string)
>on my linux box.
>
>Greetings,
>-tb
>
>
Yes, it works. I didn't expect the answer is that simple.
thanks everyone,

- reynard