specifying a custom port for a MySQL database connection

[Chris Sheffield]

Yes! Perfect. Thank you. Apparently the docs need to be updated. Or  
maybe the syntax it shows is the syntax for some other database?

Chris


On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:44 PM, John Craig wrote:

> I had the same problem a while back - some kind person on the list  
> came up with the answer - so here it is regurgitated!
>
> The correct syntax is;
> put revOpenDatabase("MySQL", dbHost, dbName, dbUser, dbPass,  
> dbPort) into db
>
> HTH
>
> JC
>
> Chris Sheffield wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having a problem. Using the revOpenDatabase function, the docs  
>> say that you can specify a port number by specifying the host,  
>> followed by a colon, followed by the port number. So something  
>> like "localhost:3306". Is this correct? Because I've tried it and  
>> I get an error "Unknown MySQL server host 'localhost:3306' (1)".
>>
>> Has anyone used this and made it work? I need to figure out a  
>> solution for this asap.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
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