mysql_select_db

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

mysql_select_db -- 选择 MySQL 数据库

说明

bool mysql_select_db ( string database_name [, resource link_identifier] )

如果成功则返回 TRUE,失败则返回 FALSE

mysql_select_db() 设定与指定的连接标识符所关联的服务器上的当前激活数据库。如果没有指定连接标识符,则使用上一个打开的连接。如果没有打开的连接,本函数将无参数调用 mysql_connect() 来尝试打开一个并使用之。

每个其后的 mysql_query() 调用都会作用于活动数据库。

例子 1. mysql_select_db() 例子

<?php

$lnk
= mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password')
       or die (
'Not connected : ' . mysql_error());

// make foo the current db
mysql_select_db('foo', $lnk) or die ('Can\'t use foo : ' . mysql_error());

?>

参见 mysql_connect()mysql_pconnect()mysql_query()

为向下兼容仍然可以使用 mysql_selectdb(),但反对这样做。


add a note add a note User Contributed Notes
matsko at rogers dot com
11-May-2006 03:19
Just incase the mysql_select_db() function still won't work with multiple database connections (as has happened to me before).

$dbh1 = mysql_pconnect($host,$user,$pass);
$dbh2 = mysql_pconnect($host,$user,$pass);

You could do this...

mysql_query("USE database1",$dbh1);
mysql_query("Use database2",$dbh2);

This does the same thing as the mysql_select_db() function...

or this...

You don't even have to select the database for each connection.

mysql_query("SELECT * FROM database1.table",$dbh1);
mysql_query("SELECT * FROM database2.table",$dbh2);
Maarten
19-Aug-2005 08:09
Previously posted comments about opening connections if the same parameters to mysql_connect() are used can be avoided by using the 'new_link' parameter to that function.

This parameter has been available since PHP 4.2.0 and allows you to open a new link even if the call uses the same parameters.
buzz at oska dot com
06-May-2005 08:39
As has been already commented, opening multiple connection handles with:
<?php
$connection_handle
mysql_connect($hostname_and_port,$user,$password);
?>
causes the connection ID/handle to be REUSED if the exact same parameters are passed in to it.  This can be annoying if you want to work with multiple databases on the same server, but don't want to (a) use the database.table syntax in all your queries or (b) call the mysql_select_db($database) before every SQL query just to be sure which database you are working with.   
My solution is to create a handle for each database with mysql_connect (using ever so slightly different connection properties), and assign each of them to their own database permanently.  each time I do a mysql_query(...) call, I just include the connection handle that I want to do this call on eg (ive left out all error checking for simplicity sake):
<?php
// none of thesehandles are re-used as the connection parameters are different on them all, despite connecting to the same server (assuming 'myuser' and 'otheruser' have the same privileges/accesses in mysql)
$handle_db1 = mysql_connect("localhost","myuser","apasswd");
$handle_db2 = mysql_connect("127.0.0.1","myuser","apasswd");
$handle_db3 = mysql_connect("localhost:3306","myuser","apasswd");
$handle_db4 = mysql_connect("localhost","otheruser","apasswd");

// give each handle it's own database to work with, permanently.
mysql_select_db("db1",$handle_db1);
mysql_select_db("db2",$handle_db2);
mysql_select_db("db3",$handle_db3);
mysql_select_db("db4",$handle_db4);

//do a query from db1:
$query = "select * from test"; $which = $handle_db1;
mysql_query($query,$which);

//do a query from db2 :
$query = "select * from test"; $which = $handle_db2;
mysql_query($query,$which);

//etc
?>

Note that we didn't do a mysql_select_db between queries , and we didn't use the database name in the query either.

Of course, it has the overhead of setting up an extra connection.... but you may find this is preferable in some cases...
Dan Ross
13-Feb-2004 05:43
Another way to select from 2 different databases on the same server:

mysql_select_db("db1");

$res_db1 = mysql_query("select * from db1.foobar");
$res_db2 = mysql_query("select * from db2.foobar");

I.e. just prepend database name.
james at gogo dot co dot nz
17-Jan-2004 08:45
Be carefull if you are using two databases on the same server at the same time.  By default mysql_connect returns the same connection ID for multiple calls with the same server parameters, which means if you do

<?php
  $db1
= mysql_connect(...stuff...);
 
$db2 = mysql_connect(...stuff...);
 
mysql_select_db('db1', $db1);
 
mysql_select_db('db2', $db2);
?>

then $db1 will actually have selected the database 'db2', because the second call to mysql_connect just returned the already opened connection ID !

You have two options here, eiher you have to call mysql_select_db before each query you do, or if you're using php4.2+ there is a parameter to mysql_connect to force the creation of a new link.
doug at xamo dot com
18-Dec-2003 04:39
When you need to query data from multiple databases, note that mysql_select_db("db2")  doesn't prevent you from fetching more rows with result sets returned from "db1".

mysql_select_db("db1");

$res_db1=mysql_query("select * from foobar");

myqsl_select_db("db2);

$row_db1=mysql_fetch_object($res_db1);

$res_db2=mysql_query("select * from test where id='$row_db1->id'");