<?php /* * This file contains the "common" instructions for connecting to a database. * Meaning, by including this file a connection to the database has already been made (or a PDO exception, in the event of failiure) */ $dsn = "mysql:host=localhost;dbname=project"; $database_user = 'root'; $database_pass = "root"; try { $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $database_user, $database_pass); $pdo -> setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); // Sets exception parameters } catch( PDOException $e) { echo(" Connection failed. " . $e -> getMessage() . " ". $e -> getLine() ); }