Setting a connect timeout with PDO

Question

I\'m using PDO to get data off a MySQL server. What I noticed is this: if the MySQL server is unavailable, it takes really (relatively) long for this code to return

Answer 1

$DBH = new PDO(
    "mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname", 
    $username, 
    $password,
    array(
        PDO::ATTR_TIMEOUT => 5, // in seconds
        PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION
    )
);