“Connect failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)” from php function [duplicate]

Answer 1

From what you've said so far, it sounds like a problem where the MySQL driver in PHP5.3 has trouble connecting to the older MySQL version 4.1. Have a look on http://www.bitshop.com/Blogs/tabid/95/EntryId/67/PHP-mysqlnd-cannot-connect-to-MySQL-4-1-using-old-authentication.aspx

There's a similar question here with some useful answers, Cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication

SELECT `User`, `Host`, Length(`Password`) FROM mysql.user

This will return 16 for accounts with old passwords and 41 for accounts with new passwords (and 0 for accounts with no password at all, you might want to take care of those as well). Either use the user managements tools of the MySQL front end (if there are any) or

SET PASSWORD FOR 'User'@'Host'=PASSWORD('yourpassword');
FLUSH Privileges

Answer 2

May be there password is not set and you are passing password as argument. Try ommitting password argument during connection..

Answer 3

Edit your privileges on PHPmyAdmin (WAMP), Note that your password and user name has not been created. So do create or edit it, that it might work with your sql connection in your php. Hope it works

Answer 4

I had this problem too. But this was because of another reason. My password began with character $... e.g. $MyPassword I've changed it to #MyPassword and the problem is solved.

Answer 5

TIP:

comment out pid and socket file, if you can't connect to server.. mysql could be connecting with incorrect pid and/or socket file, so when you try to connect to server trough command-line it "looks" at the incorrect pid/socket file...

### comment out pid and socket file, if you can't connect to server..
#pid-file=/var/run/mysql/mysqld.pid
#socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock