<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_change_user</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_affected_rows" HREF="function.mysql-affected-rows.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_close" HREF="function.mysql-close.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-affected-rows.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-close.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-change-user" >mysql_change_user</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN18427" ></A >mysql_change_user -- Change logged in user on active connection </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN18430" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int mysql_change_user</CODE >(string user, string password, string [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >database</SPAN >] , int [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >link_identifier</SPAN >] );<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_change_user()</B > changes the logged in user on the current active connection, or, if specified on the connection given by the link identifier. If a database is specified, this will default or current database after the user has been changed. If the new user/password combination fails to be authorized the current connected user stays active.</P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B >This function was introduced in PHP 3.0.13 and requires MySQL 3.23.3 or higher. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-affected-rows.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-close.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_affected_rows</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_close</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >