MYSQL *mysql_connect(MYSQL *mysql, const char *host,
const char *user, const char *passwd)
Description
This function is deprecated. Use
mysql_real_connect() instead.
mysql_connect() attempts to
establish a connection to a MySQL database engine running on
host.
mysql_connect() must complete
successfully before you can execute any of the other API
functions, with the exception of
mysql_get_client_info().
The meanings of the parameters are the same as for the
corresponding parameters for
mysql_real_connect() with the
difference that the connection parameter may be
NULL. In this case, the C API allocates
memory for the connection structure automatically and frees it
when you call mysql_close(). The
disadvantage of this approach is that you can't retrieve an
error message if the connection fails. (To get error information
from mysql_errno() or
mysql_error(), you must provide
a valid MYSQL pointer.)
Return Values
Same as for
mysql_real_connect().
Errors
Same as for
mysql_real_connect().