my $db_name = $context->config("database");
my $db_host = $context->config("hostname");
+ my $db_port = $context->config("port");
my $db_user = $context->config("user");
my $db_passwd = $context->config("pass");
- my $dbh= DBI->connect("DBI:$db_driver:$db_name:$db_host",
- $db_user, $db_passwd);
- # Koha 3.0 is utf-8, so force utf8 communication between mySQL and koha, whatever the mysql default config.
- # this is better than modifying my.cnf (and forcing all communications to be in utf8)
- $dbh->do("set NAMES 'utf8'") if ($dbh);
- $dbh->{'mysql_enable_utf8'}=1; #enable
+ my $dbh= DBI->connect("DBI:$db_driver:dbname=$db_name;host=$db_host;port=$db_port",
+ $db_user, $db_passwd);
+ if ( $db_name eq 'mysql' ) {
+ # Koha 3.0 is utf-8, so force utf8 communication between mySQL and koha, whatever the mysql default config.
+ # this is better than modifying my.cnf (and forcing all communications to be in utf8)
+ $dbh->do("set NAMES 'utf8'") if ($dbh);
+ $dbh->{'mysql_enable_utf8'}=1; #enable
+ }
return $dbh;
}