<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pg_ping</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual de PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Funciones de PostgreSQL" HREF="ref.pgsql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pg_pConnect" HREF="function.pg-pconnect.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pg_Port" HREF="function.pg-port.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual de PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pg-pconnect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pg-port.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.pg-ping" ></A >pg_ping</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN64597" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)</P >pg_ping -- Ping database connection</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN64600" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >pg_ping</B > ( resource connection)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >pg_ping()</B > ping database connection, try to reconnect if it is broken. It returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > if connection is alive, otherwise <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.pg-connection-status.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_connection_status()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.pg-connection-reset.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_connection_reset()</B ></A >. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN64616" ></A ><P ><B >Ejemplo 1. PostgreSQL fetch array</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $conn = pg_pconnect ("dbname=publisher"); if (!$conn) { echo "An error occured.\n"; exit; } if (!pg_ping($conn)) die("Connection is broken\n"); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pg-pconnect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Inicio</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pg-port.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >pg_pConnect</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.pgsql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Subir</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >pg_Port</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >