Codeigniter error when trying to connect to database using mysqli

Question

I am getting Following error in my CodeIgniter application which is live on server.

Here is the output of the error:

A PHP Error was encounte

Answer 1

Try to use the plain password with no special characters, below is the example:

$db['default'] = array(
    'dsn'   => '',
    'hostname' => 'localhost',
    'username' => 'password',
    'password' => 'Mynewpass@756',
    'database' => 'database_name',
);