Pdo connection without database name?

Question

I'm trying to create a CMS and I want to make my client life easier so I create the database by myself. I encountered a problem while trying to do this. The database isn't created so I can't connect with a PDO connection and mysql is deprecated so I can't use it. Do you have any advice for me on how I can create a PDO connection before the database is created? like a mysql_select_db() alternative?

Answer 1

You can start a PDO connection by this, correct me if I'm wrong:

$db = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost", 'user', 'pass');

The difference from this with a normal connection is the removed part dbname=[xx], as you see.

Also a free tip when you want to use a UTF-8 connection:

$db = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;charset=utf8mb4", 'user', 'pass');

In order to the comment of Yehonatan you can select a database by:

$db->exec('USE databaseName');