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How to connect to external database using phpBB db classes

This is the simply way to connect to an external database in phpBB (we go to use mysql lib here, but you could use another of these available in /phpbb32/phpbb/db/driver folder changing namespace (if on php7> you need to use mysqli and NOT mysql or you’ll get error) using phpBB db classes

$w3dbhost = 'localhost';
$w3dbuser = 'root';
$w3dbpass = 'apass';
$w3dbname = 'mydbname';
$phpbb_c = new \phpbb\db\driver\mysql();
$phpbb_c->sql_connect($w3dbhost, $w3dbuser, $w3dbpass, $w3dbname, $port = false, $persistency = false, $new_link = false);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM myTable";
$result = $phpbb_c->sql_query($sql);
while ($row = $phpbb_c->sql_fetchrow($result))
{
	print_r($row);
}
$phpbb_c->sql_close($result);

$w3dbhost = 'localhost';

$w3dbuser = 'root';

$w3dbpass = 'apass';

$w3dbname = 'mydbname';

$phpbb_c = new \phpbb\db\driver\mysql();

$phpbb_c->sql_connect($w3dbhost, $w3dbuser, $w3dbpass, $w3dbname, $port = false, $persistency = false, $new_link = false);

$sql = "SELECT * FROM myTable";

$result = $phpbb_c->sql_query($sql);

while ($row = $phpbb_c->sql_fetchrow($result))

{

print_r($row);

}

$phpbb_c->sql_close($result);

This is it.

Note: if on Php7 > change line

$phpbb_c = new \phpbb\db\driver\mysql();
into
$phpbb_c = new \phpbb\db\driver\mysqli();

to switch and use mysqli.

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