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lucaszephyr

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Registered: 2022-04-25

Posts: 29

Close database connection

Does glpi have some function that closes the connection to the database?
something like "mysqli->close;"

Or it closes that connection on its own?

cconard96

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Registered: 2018-07-31

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Re: Close database connection

There is an explicit connection closing done after the page footer is displayed but the PHP extension would handle closing any hanging connections at the end of script execution as they are not persistent connections.

The PHP documentation on the close method explains this process:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.close.php

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lucaszephyr

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Registered: 2022-04-25

Posts: 29

Re: Close database connection

After some research I found that there are two methods. The first using "$DB->close();" and the second using "closeDBConnections();". Don't forget to request the "includes.php" in inc