How do i ping the MySQL db and reconnect using PDO

Question

I am using MySQL PDO for handling database querying and all. But most of the time, the MySQL connection is gone away. So i am looking in the PDO that will check if the db co

Answer 1

You can use like this:

# connect to the database
try {
  $DBH = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$dbname", $user, $pass);
  $DBH->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION );

}
catch(PDOException $e) {
    echo "Connection error " . $e->getMessage() . "\n";
    exit;
}