MySQL: determine which database is selected?

Question

After calling mysql_select_db to grab a database, is there any way to later output the name of the database that is currently selected? This seems very basic bu

Answer 1

slightly off-topic (using the CLI instead of PHP), but still worth knowing: You can set the prompt to display the default database by using any of the following

mysql --prompt='\d> '
export MYSQL_PS1='\d> '

or once inside

prompt \d>\_
\R \d>\_