httpd.exe Crashes when executing a PHP Script with MySql in it

Question

Hi,

I'm new to PHP and i've been learning some php for the past couple of days, now i'm trying to execute a script with MySql code in it but unfortunately the browser comes up with an error about httpd.exe!

it's just a simple code making a mysql connection:

<?php

$conn = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "");
echo "$conn";
mysql_close($conn);

?>

before i had the problem of an undefined function in php mysql_connect which has been fixed. I have Apache 2.2.16 & PHP 5.2.6, running on windows xp.

Answer 1

My guess is that it's probably crashing on echo "$conn", because you're trying to force PHP to cast a MySQL resource to a string. If you want to inspect the connection object, use var_dump or print_r.