<?php namespace Laravel\Database\Connectors; use PDO; class MySQL extends Connector { /** * Establish a PDO database connection. * * @param array $config * @return PDO */ public function connect($config) { extract($config); $dsn = "mysql:host={$host};dbname={$database}"; // The developer has the freedom of specifying a port for the MySQL database // or the default port (3306) will be used to make the connection by PDO. // The Unix socket may also be specified if necessary. if (isset($config['port'])) { $dsn .= ";port={$config['port']}"; } // The UNIX socket option allows the developer to indicate that the MySQL // instance must be connected to via a given socket. We'll just append // it to the DSN connection string if it is present. if (isset($config['unix_socket'])) { $dsn .= ";unix_socket={$config['unix_socket']}"; } $connection = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password, $this->options($config)); // If a character set has been specified, we'll execute a query against // the database to set the correct character set. By default, this is // set to UTF-8 which should be fine for most scenarios. if (isset($config['charset'])) { $connection->prepare("SET NAMES '{$config['charset']}'")->execute(); } return $connection; } }