MySQL connection error

[Mitsuhiro Yoshida]

After the follwing commit, Mahara shows MySQL DB connection error as below.

[git.mahara.org commit]
http://git.mahara.org/?p=mahara.git;a=commit;h=fc8d64fd920e1532dfe164853f8ce04f0f748cbe

[error message]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mahara: Site unavailable
Mahara could not connect to the application database.

* If you are using Mahara, please wait a minute and try again
* If you are the administrator, please check your database settings and make sure your database is available

The error received was:
Missing file: /home/mahara/public_html/lib/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql5.inc.php

This bug was imported from eduforge.org, see:
https://eduforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2998&group_id=176&atid=739

[Mitsuhiro Yoshida (mits)]

To avoid this MySQL connection error, we need to fix
'htdocs/init.php' as below.

File: htdocs/init.php
Ref.: fc8d64fd920e1532dfe164853f8ce04f0f748cbe

[before]
// core libraries
require('mahara.php');
ensure_sanity();
require('dml.php');
require('web.php');
require('activity.php');
require('user.php');

[After]
// core libraries
require('mahara.php');
ensure_sanity();
require('dml.php');
require('ddl.php');
require('web.php');
require('activity.php');
require('user.php');

[Nigel-catalyst (nigel-catalyst)]

That's not how the problem will eventually be fixed - ddl was removed from init.php because it's unnecessary for more than 99% of requests, and loads eight large files.

We'll find another fix for it.

[Mitsuhiro Yoshida (mits)]

I see. :-)

How about this?

File: htdocs/init.php
Line: 90

[before]
ob_start();

$db = &ADONewConnection($CFG->dbtype);

[after]
ob_start();

if (is_postgres()) {
    $CFG->dbtype = 'postgres7';
}
else if (is_mysql()) {
    $CFG->dbtype = 'mysql';
}

$db = &ADONewConnection($CFG->dbtype);

[Nigel-catalyst (nigel-catalyst)]

This seems to have been fixed at some point.