MySQL PHP incompatibility

Question

I\'m running WAMP locally, but connecting to a remote MySQL database. The local version of PHP is the latest 5.3.0.

One of the remote databases, being version 5.0.45

Answer 1

I have been trying to find a simple fix for this problem. Try this approach. In MySQL type

SELECT Host, User, Password FROM mysql.user;

If your password is sixteen characters, this is because you have used OLD_PASSWORD on your user's or have been running an old version of MySQL. To update type in

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpass')
  WHERE User='root' AND Host='localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

swapping root, localhost and newpass for your user, host and pass respectively. Now when you re-type

SELECT Host, User, Password FROM mysql.user;

Your password should have changed. This fixed it for me.