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mysqli::kill

PHP function Deprecated as of PHP 8.4.0 Edit on GitHub ✎

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Asks the server to kill a MySQL thread

Function-8-4-0

Description

Oop

mysqli::kill(int $process_id): bool

Procedural

mysqli_kill(mysqli $mysql, int $process_id): bool

This function is used to ask the server to kill a MySQL thread specified by the process_id parameter. This value must be retrieved by calling the mysqli_thread_id() function.

To stop a running query you should use the SQL command KILL QUERY processid.

Parameters

Return Values

Success

Errors/Exceptions Conditionalexception

Changelog

VersionDescription
8.4.0Both mysqli::kill and mysqli_kill() are now deprecated. Use the KILL SQL command instead.

Examples

mysqli::kill example

Oop

php
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");

/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
    exit();
}

/* determine our thread id */
$thread_id = $mysqli->thread_id;

/* Kill connection */
$mysqli->kill($thread_id);

/* This should produce an error */
if (!$mysqli->query("CREATE TABLE myCity LIKE City")) {
    printf("Error: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
    exit;
}

/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>

Procedural

php
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");

/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
    exit();
}

/* determine our thread id */
$thread_id = mysqli_thread_id($link);

/* Kill connection */
mysqli_kill($link, $thread_id);

/* This should produce an error */
if (!mysqli_query($link, "CREATE TABLE myCity LIKE City")) {
    printf("Error: %s\n", mysqli_error($link));
    exit;
}

/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>

Outputs

output
Error: MySQL server has gone away

See Also

Source: reference/mysqli/mysqli/kill.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)