JW.

Ok. So I did set up MySQL administrator but was unable to start the server via the administrator. Maybe that’s not it’s function. I am able to start the server via the System Preferences Pane as well as from the command line.

I was also able to access my database, nativeplants, as well as it’s individual tables, commonname and grasstable, via the MySQL administrator. And… I made the connection without needing to put in a password for root, even though I set up a root password through the MySQL administrator when I edited the account.

I am still baffled though, as to why the following file:

<?php
$dbhost='localhost:/tmp/mysql.sock';
$dbuser='mvanorshoven';
$dbpass='';

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass) or die ('Error connecto to mysql');
print "Connected to MySQL “;

$dbname=’nativeplants’;
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die (’Unable to select database’);
?>

produces the following message
Connected to MySQL
Unable to select database

I’m very new at this so I’m wondering if I am connecting to the database but erroneously printing out the wrong error messages or visa versa.

I was unable to start via the MySQL administrator but when I start either through the command line
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start or through the system preferences pane and then I go into the system administrator the detail shows:

User: root
Host: localhost
Socket: /tmp/mysql.sock

Server info:
MYSQL Version: mySQL 5.1.35-log via socket
Network name: localhost
IP: 127.0.0.1

Client information

Version: MySQL Client Version 5.1.8
Network name: mvanorshoven.local
IP: 192.168.1.108
Operating System: Darwin 9.7.0

ok. so now when I’m in the MySQL Administrator world I added a password to root user, I added myself as a user and when I clicked on catalogs, the database that I had created along with the tables are there! this is exciting.

Uh oh, now when I go back to the Schema Privileges page and attempt to expand the user ‘martha’, the only item below it is %. However, below root I have localhost, root@mvanorshoven.local and root@127.0.0.1.

Ok, I highlighted ‘martha’ and then added ‘localhost’ (two buttons next to the sillhouette icons) and I added 127.0.0.1 as well as mvanorshoven.local.

So that all looks great but still, when I’m in firefox and run the following php file:
<?php
$dbhost='localhost:/tmp/mysql.sock';
$dbuser='mvanorshoven';
'$dbpass=' ';

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpass) or die ('Error connect to mysql');
print "Connected to MySQL”;

$dbname=’nativeplants’;
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die (’Unable to select database’);
?>

The message I receive is:
Connected to MySQL
Unable to select database

So where to next? I did put passwords into the MySQL admin screen but when I entered that password in the $dbpass field the error was:
Access denied for user ‘mvanorshoven’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)…

http://superfancy.net/coding/mysql-administrator-on-mac-osx-leopard-tips-and-tricks/

Ok. Yesterday, I moved mysql.sock to /var/mysql/mysql.sock and I changed the my.cnf file but mysql failed to start after the move. I moved mysql.sock back to /tmp/mysql and still, no luck. So I reinstalled Mysql. Mysql was running this morning and php was running until I moved mysql.sock back to /var/mysql/mysql.sock again at this point mysql failed to start. I moved the mysql.sock file back to /tmp/mysql.sock and everything is working except… my ability to access a database.

Before I moved the mysql.sock file I did attempt to edit php.ini and the socket path there but this file is a read only even when I use the sudo command.

any thoughts?