mysql.md

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Title: MySQL Databases ...

MySQL Databases

This page assumes you've read the Quick Start guide and created a MySQL database for your site.

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Managing your site's database

For an interactive shell where you can type SQL queries and see responses, click Database shell under the Database section on your site's information page.

To delete your database, click Delete Database. WARNING: This will irrevocably delete ALL data stored in your site's database.

How to access your database from your site's server

Here are some examples of how to access Director MySQL databases in different languages.

Note: All of these examples assume you have installed the necessary libraries and set everything else up. This page is a guide for getting Director databases to work with different frameworks; it is not a general "how to do web development in X" guide.

Additionally, please read the relevant Framework Guides.

Node

Using the mysql library:

var mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection(process.env.DIRECTOR_DATABASE_URL);

Django

Adding this to your settings.py should work:

import os

DATABASES = {
    "default": {
        "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.mysql",
        "NAME": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_NAME"],
        "USER": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_USERNAME"],
        "PASSWORD": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PASSWORD"],
        "HOST": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_HOST"],
        "PORT": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PORT"],
    },
}

Alternatively, if you have your code in Git (see Version Control Best Practices) and you want it to work without modification on your computer, this will let you fall back on an SQLite database when not on Director:

import os

if "DIRECTOR_DATABASE_URL" in os.environ:
    DATABASES = {
        "default": {
            "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.mysql",
            "NAME": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_NAME"],
            "USER": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_USERNAME"],
            "PASSWORD": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PASSWORD"],
            "HOST": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_HOST"],
            "PORT": os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PORT"],
        },
    }
else:
    DATABASES = {
        "default": {
            "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3",
            "NAME": os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "db.sqlite3"),
        }
    }

SQLAlchemy (for example, with Flask)

import os
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

engine = create_engine(os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_URL"])

If you want to use an SQLite database when your code is not run on Director, like the Django example above:

import os
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

engine = create_engine(os.environ.get("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_URL", "sqlite:///<path to local database file>"))

And if you need to specify an alternate driver (see the SQLAlchemy docs for details), you can use this:

import os
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

if "DIRECTOR_DATABASE_URL" in os.environ:
    db_url = os.environ["DIRECTOR_DATABASE_URL"]
    driver_name = "<name of the driver you want to use>"
    db_colon_index = db_url.index(":")
    db_url = db_url[:db_colon_index] + "+" + driver_name + db_url[db_colon_index:]
else:
    db_url = "sqlite:///<path to local database file>"

engine = create_engine(db_url)

PHP

WARNING: Usage of PHP on Director is not recommended.

Using PDO:

$db = new PDO("mysql:dbname=" . getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_NAME") . ";host=" . getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_HOST") . ";port=" . getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PORT"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_USERNAME"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PASSWORD"));

Using the mysqli_*() functions:

$db = mysqli_connect(getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_HOST"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_USERNAME"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PASSWORD"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_NAME"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PORT"));
// OR
$db = new mysqli(getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_HOST"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_USERNAME"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PASSWORD"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_NAME"), getenv("DIRECTOR_DATABASE_PORT"));