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mysql_close

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(PHP 4, PHP 5)

Close MySQL connection

Note mysqli_closePDO: Assign the value of null to the PDO object

Description

mysql_close(resource $link_identifier = NULL): bool

mysql_close() closes the non-persistent connection to the MySQL server that's associated with the specified link identifier. If link_identifier isn't specified, the last opened link is used.

Sets

Parameters

Return Values

Success

Examples

mysql_close() example

php

<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
if (!$link) {
    die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo 'Connected successfully';
mysql_close($link);
?>

The above example will output:

output

Connected successfully

Notes

Note

mysql_close() will not close persistent links created by mysql_pconnect(). For additional details, see the manual page on persistent connections.