PHP SSH and mysql connection

[Hendrik Maeder]

For a long time I've been trying to connect to mysql through a SSH tunnel. Although that si possible by setting up the tunnel manually (with 'ssh -L ...'), I'd like it to be done by PHP itself.

Now, with the SSH2 extension (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ssh2.php) it is possible to issue a 'ssh2_connect' and then a 'ssh2_tunnel' command.
That returns a socket resource to the destination server.
So far, all fine.

Problem:
How can I force that socket onto 'mysql_connect'?
I mean, what I have is:
$tunnel = ssh2_tunnel($connection, '10.0.0.101', 12345);

But $tunnel is a PHP resource, and not in the format ':/path/to/socket' that mysql_connect expects...

Is this possible at all?

Cheers,
Hendrik

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** Hendrik Maeder wrote/escribió (Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:14:35 +0200):

How can I force that socket onto 'mysql_connect'? I mean, what I have is:
$tunnel = ssh2_tunnel($connection, '10.0.0.101', 12345);

But $tunnel is a PHP resource, and not in the format ':/path/to/socket'
that mysql_connect expects...

According to manual mysql_connect() does not expect necessarily a socket
file (actually, ":/path/to/socket" support was added at a later time).

I haven't tried it myself with PHP so it's just a guess but... Once the
tunnel if open, can't you simply connect through it using host+port as
usual? The idea of a tunnel is that applications don't have to know about
it.

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