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MySQL Functions (PDO_MYSQL)

Introduction

PDO_MYSQL is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO) interface to enable access from PHP to MySQL databases.

PDO_MYSQL uses emulated prepares by default.

MySQL 8

When running a PHP version before 7.1.16, or PHP 7.2 before 7.2.4, set MySQL 8 Server's default password plugin to mysql_native_password or else you will see errors similar to The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [caching_sha2_password] even when caching_sha2_password is not used.

This is because MySQL 8 defaults to caching_sha2_password, a plugin that is not recognized by the older PHP (mysqlnd) releases. Instead, change it by setting default_authentication_plugin=mysql_native_password in my.cnf. The caching_sha2_password plugin is fully supported as of PHP 7.4.4. For older releases, the mysql_xdevapi extension does support it.

Warning

Beware: Some MySQL table types (storage engines) do not support transactions. When writing transactional database code using a table type that does not support transactions, MySQL will pretend that a transaction was initiated successfully. In addition, any DDL queries issued will implicitly commit any pending transactions.

Note:

The MySQL driver does not properly support PDO::PARAM_INPUT_OUTPUT via PDOStatement::bindParam(); while such parameters can be used, they are not updated (i.e. the actual output is ignored).

Installation

The common Unix distributions include binary versions of PHP that can be installed. Although these binary versions are typically built with support for the MySQL extensions, the extension libraries themselves may need to be installed using an additional package. Check the package manager that comes with your chosen distribution for availability.

For example, on Ubuntu the php5-mysql package installs the ext/mysql, ext/mysqli, and PDO_MYSQL PHP extensions. On CentOS, the php-mysql package also installs these three PHP extensions.

Alternatively, you can compile this extension yourself. Building PHP from source allows you to specify the MySQL extensions you want to use, as well as your choice of client library for each extension.

When compiling, use --with-pdo-mysql[=DIR] to install the PDO MySQL extension, where the optional [=DIR] is the MySQL base library. Mysqlnd is the default library. For details about choosing a library, see Choosing a MySQL library.

Optionally, the --with-mysql-sock[=DIR] sets to location to the MySQL unix socket pointer for all MySQL extensions, including PDO_MYSQL. If unspecified, the default locations are searched.

Optionally, the --with-zlib-dir[=DIR] is used to set the path to the libz install prefix.

$ ./configure --with-pdo-mysql --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql/mysql.sock

SSL support is enabled using the appropriate PDO_MySQL constants, which is equivalent to calling the » MySQL C API function mysql_ssl_set(). Also, SSL cannot be enabled with PDO::setAttribute because the connection already exists. See also the MySQL documentation about » connecting to MySQL with SSL.

Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this driver, and will only be available when the extension has been either compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime. In addition, these driver-specific constants should only be used if you are using this driver. Using driver-specific attributes with another driver may result in unexpected behaviour. PDO::getAttribute() may be used to obtain the PDO::ATTR_DRIVER_NAME attribute to check the driver, if your code can run against multiple drivers.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY (bool)
By default all statements are executed in buffered mode. If this attribute is set to false on a PDO object, the MySQL driver will use the unbuffered mode.

Example #1 Setting MySQL unbuffered mode

<?php
$pdo
= new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=world", 'my_user', 'my_password');
$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY, false);

$unbufferedResult = $pdo->query("SELECT Name FROM City");
foreach (
$unbufferedResult as $row) {
echo
$row['Name'] . PHP_EOL;
}
?>

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_LOCAL_INFILE (int)

Enable LOAD LOCAL INFILE.

Note, this constant can only be used in the driver_options array when constructing a new database handle.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_LOCAL_INFILE_DIRECTORY (string)

Allows restricting LOCAL DATA loading to files located in this designated directory. Available as of PHP 8.1.0.

Note, this constant can only be used in the driver_options array when constructing a new database handle.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND (string)

Command to execute when connecting to the MySQL server. Will automatically be re-executed when reconnecting.

Note, this constant can only be used in the driver_options array when constructing a new database handle.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_READ_DEFAULT_FILE (int)

Read options from the named option file instead of from my.cnf. This option is not available if mysqlnd is used, because mysqlnd does not read the mysql configuration files.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_READ_DEFAULT_GROUP (int)

Read options from the named group from my.cnf or the file specified with MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_FILE. This option is not available if mysqlnd is used, because mysqlnd does not read the mysql configuration files.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE (int)

Maximum buffer size. Defaults to 1 MiB. This constant is not supported when compiled against mysqlnd.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_DIRECT_QUERY (int)

Perform direct queries, don't use prepared statements.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_FOUND_ROWS (int)

Return the number of found (matched) rows, not the number of changed rows.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_IGNORE_SPACE (int)

Permit spaces after function names. Makes all functions names reserved words.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_COMPRESS (int)

Enable network communication compression.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA (int)

The file path to the SSL certificate authority.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CAPATH (int)

The file path to the directory that contains the trusted SSL CA certificates, which are stored in PEM format.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CERT (int)

The file path to the SSL certificate.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CIPHER (int)

A list of one or more permissible ciphers to use for SSL encryption, in a format understood by OpenSSL. For example: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_KEY (int)

The file path to the SSL key.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT (int)

Provides a way to disable verification of the server SSL certificate. This option is available only with mysqlnd.

This exists as of PHP 7.0.18 and PHP 7.1.4.

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_MULTI_STATEMENTS (int)

Disables multi query execution in both PDO::prepare() and PDO::query() when set to false.

Note, this constant can only be used in the driver_options array when constructing a new database handle.

Runtime Configuration

The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.

PDO_MYSQL Configuration Options
Name Default Changeable
pdo_mysql.default_socket "/tmp/mysql.sock" INI_SYSTEM
pdo_mysql.debug NULL INI_SYSTEM
For further details and definitions of the INI_* modes, see the Where a configuration setting may be set.

Here's a short explanation of the configuration directives.

pdo_mysql.default_socket string

Sets a Unix domain socket. This value can either be set at compile time if a domain socket is found at configure. This ini setting is Unix only.

pdo_mysql.debug bool

Enables debugging for PDO_MYSQL. This setting is only available when PDO_MYSQL is compiled against mysqlnd and in PDO debug mode.

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Desislav Kamenov
6 years ago
There is an important undocumented attribute which disables certificate CN verification available after
5.6.22 (not sure), 7.0.18 (verified) and 7.1.15 (not sure)

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_VERIFY_SERVER_CERT

possible values: true, false
default value: true

Related PHP bugs:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71845
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71003

and github PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1913
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davey at php dot net
17 years ago
To use "PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY" you should call
PDO::setAttribute(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY, true);

It will not work when passed into PDO::prepare()
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brian at diamondsea dot com
16 years ago
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2014 Cannot execute queries while other unbuffered queries are active. ...

After spending hours trying to track down why we were getting this error on a new server, after the same code ran fine on other servers, we found the problem to be an old MySQL _client_ library running on our web server, and a latest-version MySQL _server_ running on the database server's box.

Upgraded the MySQL client on the web server to the current revision and the problem went away.
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curt at webmasterbond dot com
13 years ago
Today's PHP snapshot now has SSL support for PDO. Follow the directions here ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/secure-create-certs.html ) to set up MySQL and then use the following connection options:

<?php
$pdo
= new PDO(
'mysql:host=hostname;dbname=ssldb',
'username',
'password',
array(
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_KEY =>'/path/to/client-key.pem',
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CERT=>'/path/to/client-cert.pem',
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA =>'/path/to/ca-cert.pem'
)
);
?>
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snoyes at gmail dot com
1 month ago
> change it by setting default_authentication_plugin=mysql_native_password in my.cnf

This only works in MySQL 8.0. The default_authentication_plugin variable has been removed from 8.4.
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rmottey at gmail dot com
16 years ago
I have been getting the error below when performing multiple queries within a single page.

Setting the attribute below did not seem to work for me.

So building on previous example i am initilizing my stmt variable on every query and a fetch all into an array. Seems to be working for me.

Error:
PDO Error 1.1: Array ( [0] => xxx[1] => yyy[2] => Lost connection to MySQL server during query )

Fix:

(PDO::setAttribute("PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY", true);)

<?

try {
$dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=xxx;port=xxx;dbname=xxx', 'xxx', 'xxx', array( PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => false));
$stmt = $dbh->prepare("CALL getname()");

// call the stored procedure
$stmt->execute();
// fetch all rows into an array.
$rows = $stmt->fetchAll();
foreach ($rows as $rs)
{
$id = $rs['id'];
}
//initilise the statement
unset($stmt);
$stmt = $dbh->prepare("call secondprocedure(?);");
$stmt->bindValue(1, $id);
if ( ! $stmt->execute() )
{
echo "PDO Error 1.1:\n";
print_r($stmt->errorInfo());
exit;
}
unset($stmt);
} catch (PDOException $e) {
print "Error!: " . $e->getMessage() . "<br/>";
die();
}
?>
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