problems with revdb_connect

[Devin Asay]

On May 9, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Inselfan <baleareninsel at gmx.net> wrote:

> Good evening,
> 
> after a long long time, I'm back here :)
> 
> I'm still using LC 4.3.5, which is, like me a bit older but it works (like
> me) and I learned to handle the bugs there.
> 
> Since years I use 
> put revdb_connect ("mySQL","192.168.Y.XX","databasename","root",,,) into
> DB_ID 
> 
> which is doing what ist has to do. Since today I get an unexpected error: 
> 
> revdberr,invalid database type
> 
> in the programmers-version with the source code. Strange enough, it works
> with the same, but compiled code on the same computer
> 
> Does anybody has an idea, what is going on there and what I should
> control/test?
> 
> Thanks for your help and helpful ikdeas

Horst,

This may be a shot in the dark, but try “mysql” (all lower case) instead of “MySQL”. It shouldn’t matter, but some environments are case sensitive, not in the LiveCode environment, but on the server.

HTH

Devin


Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University