Hi,

I have a Bot running I'm basically trying to run it on my webhost's webserver (Hostgator).

After many queries back and forth, I'm now able to run my bot somewhat, after a few minutes i get this message "MySQL server has gone away" and it wont create a new/reconnect to MySQL server.

This can be a combination of 2 things: a low timeout on server and reconnection not allowed. (i have no access to change these as I'm trying to run bot on a "webserver only server", lucky enough to get them to open the port so witch i could connect to the chat server inn the first place)

Adding a mysql_ping() into the code should make this issue go away, how should i go forth adding ping?


All feedback appreciated