Ok, i patched in the latest CVS after I got up this morning and it seems to be working now.
But a few comments about it. Nowhere on the pages do we actually know if it's using the socket or the TCP/IP connection method.
I would suggest that we alter the main.php3, where it says: "MySQL 3.23.40robbat2-log running on localhost" to indicate if we are using the socket or the connection.
in addition to that, a configuration variable along the lines of $cfgServers[1]['usesocket'] = TRUE; // use socket as opposed to TCP/IP
as somebody might actually want to choose tcp/ip over sockets (or vice-versa)
just my morning $0.02
i'm gonna carry on working on my webpage contracts for my textbooks, i've got one down, one to go to cover them. ($420 CDN in total)