You don't have to call mysql_close(). PHP handles cleaning resources when script
execution is ended.
You can set default connection parameters for MySQL in php.ini.
I don't know if you need to call mysql_connect(). (I don't use MySQL :)
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> I'm using PHP on a windows box to access a MySQL database.
>
> I noticed that I do not need to open a database connection before performing
> a mysql_db_query(). Is this bad coding ? Should the database connection
> always be made ? Is this specific to Windows ?
>
> # $databaseConnection = mysql_connect ("localhost", "", ""); ## I don't
> seem to need this line, or the last one
> mysql_db_query("dbnam", "SQL query");
> # mysql_close ($databaseConnection);
>
> Thanks,
> David.
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