Connect to a mysql database via SSH through PHP

Question

I have already written a php file that connects to the mysql database locally. Now, I want to connect to a remote database via SSH. Currently the connect function for my dat

Answer 1

The mysql extension doesn't currently support this. Modifying the extension, itself, might not be that difficult, but at that point, it'd have to be a custom PECL extension, at best. The idea was discussed on the PHP Internals mailing list a while back:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/79520

Answer 2

I think you are out of luck on this one. You can either use the ssh extension in your PHP code, or if you have access to the server, you could try to create a ssh tunnel on the command-line.

You probably need special permissions to do that, though. It also looks like you don't have ssh access to this hosting account.

duplicate answered by @jpm

Setting up tunneling posted by @Ólafur Waage on Connect to a MySQL server over SSH in PHP

And this one for tunneling by @Sosy

shell_exec(“ssh -f -L 3307:127.0.0.1:3306 user@remote.rjmetrics.com sleep 60 >> logfile”);  
$db = mysqli_connect(’127.0.0.1′, ‘sqluser’, ‘sqlpassword’, ‘rjmadmin’, 3307);