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unable to connect to mysql from the command line

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Oct 22.2006

Hi people

I have a php application which successfully connects to mysql and interacts with the database.
I am using apache as my web server.

I would like to invoke my code from the command shell, using php.exe like so:
c:phpphp.exe c:script.php

in script.php I am using mysql_connect to connect to the database.
I get the following error:
Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

Note that the same script is working perfectly when invoked via the web server…

what do I need to do in order to make my script work from the command line?

regards

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@chazzyOct 22.2006 — can you show us your code?
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@jasongrauthorOct 23.2006 — I found the problem.

the fact that the code was involed from the command line, caused some of the global parameters in $_SERVER not to be initialized properly, and that caused me to attempt to connect to the database using the wrong password.
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