should I use mysql_close()?

I wonder if I should use mysql_close() at the end of those snippets, which connect to a database-table outside the modx-database? As far as I know modx itself has a permanent connection to the database - does this mean that mysql_close() will also close this connection and not only the one which I generated via my custom snippet?

Many thanks in advance!

Quote from: Inka27 at Jan 19, 2011, 10:02 AM

does this mean that mysql_close() will also close this connection and not only the one which I generated via my custom snippet?

Many thanks in advance!

Not 100% sure but I think it does. I opened a connection to a different db then closed it at the end of the snippet and the webpage failed. I then added the code to reconnected to the original db after the mysql_close() and the page worked again.

Mike

MODx core doesn’t use the mysql socket itself but the PDO extension. That’s a completely other way to connect to the database.