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1. jscott02
   Member

   I am getting an error connecting to DB: Error connecting to the database: could not find driver

   My DB setting are all fine see below:

   /** MySQL settings **/
   define('DB_NAME', 'mfsigmaxiforms'); //The name of your database. Note that this database must exist before running installer.php
   define('DB_USER', 'machform'); //Your database username
   define('DB_PASSWORD', 'xxxx'); //Your database users password
   define('DB_HOST', 'webforge.xxxr.rrrr'); //The hostname for your database

   Posted 12 years ago #

2. pwpearce
   Member

   I have the same problem- trying to upgrade 2 to 3:
   Error message-
   -Error connecting to the database: could not find driver-

   I don't know if this is a bug or if I have a bad configuration...
   or missing files from the upload to server.

   Is there a file I should be looking for?

   Posted 12 years ago #

3. bigbuddy
   Member

   Your problem is you copied this from your old config file. Check the new config file and fill in the data manually. The new file is slightly different.

   Posted 12 years ago #

4. jscott02
   Member

   I see the slight difference and only reverted back to V2 code when it would not work but the v3 code still is not connecting

   /** MySQL settings **/

   define('MF_DB_NAME', 'mfsigmaxiforms'); //The name of your database. Note that this database must exist before running installer.php
   define('MF_DB_USER', 'machform'); //Your database username
   define('MF_DB_PASSWORD', 'xxxx'); //Your database users password
   define('MF_DB_HOST', 'webforge.xxxr.edu'); //The hostname for your database

   Posted 12 years ago #
5. 

   yuniar

   The actual cause for the problem is this - "could not find driver".
   MachForm 3 uses different library to connect to the database, PDO, which offers more security.

   Apparently, the PHP PDO on your server doesn't have the mysql driver. I suggest to contact your hosting tech support/server admin and ask him to enable the mysql driver for the PDO. This can be done easily by editing the php.ini file

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   MachForm Founder

   Posted 12 years ago #

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