From 1d33c3fd07fbfa41359af0e99079f57f022e7124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brettp <brettp@36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:56:55 +0000
Subject: Merged 1.7 bugfixes back into core. (5376:HEAD).

git-svn-id: http://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@5471 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544
---
 engine/lib/install.php | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

(limited to 'engine/lib/install.php')

diff --git a/engine/lib/install.php b/engine/lib/install.php
index 1b363b950..e2b0c5251 100644
--- a/engine/lib/install.php
+++ b/engine/lib/install.php
@@ -44,6 +44,29 @@ function validate_platform() {
 	return true;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Confirm the settings for the database
+ *
+ * @param string $user
+ * @param string $password
+ * @param string $dbname
+ * @param string $host
+ * @return bool
+ */
+function db_check_settings($user, $password, $dbname, $host) {
+	$mysql_dblink = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password, true);
+	if ($mysql_dblink == FALSE) {
+		return $FALSE;
+	}
+
+	$result = mysql_select_db($dbname, $mysql_dblink);
+
+	mysql_close($mysql_dblink);
+	
+	return $result;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * Returns whether or not the database has been installed
  *
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