The Problem If the MySQL password contains a dollar sign character ‘$’, PHP is unable to connect and issues an error like: Access denied for user ‘username’@’hostname’ (using password: YES) Connections via other clients work correctly. The Solution PHP interprets dollar signs inside of double quotes as starting a variable name, which will be expanded. […]
PHP
How to test a PHP script
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP runs on all major operating systems, from Unix variants including Linux, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian, and Solaris to Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used with all leading web servers, including Apache, Nginx, […]