<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_ping</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL Functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_pconnect" HREF="function.mysql-pconnect.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_query" HREF="function.mysql-query.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" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-pconnect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-query.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-ping" ></A >mysql_ping</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN59355" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)</P >mysql_ping -- Ping a server connection or reconnect if there is no connection</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN59358" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >mysql_ping</B > ( [resource link_identifier])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_ping()</B > checks whether or not the connection to the server is working. If it has gone down, an automatic reconnection is attempted. This function can be used by scripts that remain idle for a long while, to check whether or not the server has closed the connection and reconnect if necessary. <B CLASS="function" >mysql_ping()</B > returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > if the connection to the server is working, otherwise <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. </P ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.mysql-thread-id.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_thread_id()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-list-processes.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_list_processes()</B ></A >. </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.mysql-pconnect.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-query.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_pconnect</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_query</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >