I am trying to connect via a dsn to a remote database. I am confused as to how to build the dsn.
From php.net
<?php
$dsn = 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb';
$username = 'username';
$password = 'password';
$options = array(
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8',
);
$dbh = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password, $options);
?>
from the CI manual pages:
$dsn = 'dbdriver://username:password@hostname/database';
$this->load->database($dsn);
I have connected to this databse via psql on the command line with:
psql --host=imagesdatabase.cwymdn16xxxes.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com --port=5432 --username=richb2 --password --dbname=postgres
How do I go from my working psql version above to the CI example?
I tried this but I am getting a 500 error from the load database command below, which mean invalid driver
$dsn = 'jdbc:postgresql://imagesdatabase.cwymdn16xxxes.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432/postgres -Urichb2';
$DB1 = $this->load->database($dsn, TRUE);
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