<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_close</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_change_user" HREF="function.mysql-change-user.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_connect" HREF="function.mysql-connect.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-change-user.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-connect.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-close" >mysql_close</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN18450" ></A >mysql_close -- close MySQL connection</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN18453" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int mysql_close</CODE >(int [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >link_identifier</SPAN >] );<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Returns: true on success, false on error. </P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_close()</B > closes the link to a MySQL database that's associated with the specified link identifier. If the link identifier isn't specified, the last opened link is assumed. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > This isn't usually necessary, as non-persistent open links are automatically closed at the end of the script's execution. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_close()</B > will not close persistent links generated by <A HREF="function.mysql-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_pconnect()</B ></A >. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example 1. MySQL close example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 <?php 3 $link = mysql_connect ("kraemer", "marliesle", "secret") { 4 or die ("Could not connect"); 5 } 6 print ("Connected successfully"); 7 mysql_close ($link); 8 ?> 9 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.mysql-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_connect()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.mysql-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_pconnect()</B ></A >. </P ></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-change-user.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-connect.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_change_user</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_connect</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >