Infinite Loading When Trying to Connect Into MySQL - mysql

Question

I'm having a problem connecting to mysql database in XAMPP. It always takes time to load this segment of php code. What might be the problem?
<?php
session_start();
//redirect function
function returnheader($location){
$returnheader = header("location: $location");
return $returnheader;
}
$connection = mysqli_connect("localhost:85","root","") OR die(mysqli_error());
$db_select = mysqli_select_db("pts",$connection) OR die(mysqli_error());
$errors = array();
if(isset($_POST["iebugaround"])){
//lets fetch posted details
$uname = trim(htmlentities($_POST['uname']));
$passw = trim(htmlentities($_POST['psw']));
//check username is present
if(empty($uname)){
//let echo error message
$errors[] = "Please input a username";
}
//check password was present
if(empty($passw)){
//let echo error message
$errors[] = "Please input a password";
}
if(!$errors){
//encrypt the password
$passw = sha1($passw);
$salt = md5("userlogin");
$pepper = "ptsbtr";
$passencrypt = $salt . $passw . $pepper;
//find out if user and password are present
$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='".mysqli_real_escape_string($uname)."' AND password='".mysqli_real_escape_string($passencrypt)."'";
$result = mysqli_query($query) OR die(mysqli_error());
$result_num = mysqli_num_rows($result);
if($result_num > 0){
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
$idsess = stripslashes($row["id"]);
$firstnamesess = stripslashes($row["firstname"]);
$username = stripslashes($row["username"]);
$_SESSION["SESS_USERID"] = $idsess;
$_SESSION["SESS_USERFIRSTNAME"] = $firstnamesess;
$_SESSION["SESS_USERNAME"] = $username;
setcookie("userloggedin", $username);
setcookie("userloggedin", $username, time()+43200); // expires in 1 hour
//success lets login to page
returnheader("users-area.php");
}
} else {
//tell there is no username etc
$errors[] = "Your username or password are incorrect";
}
}
} else {
$uname = "";
}
?>
And this is the error after loading it for minutes.
Warning: mysql_connect(): MySQL server has gone away in C:\xampp\htdocs\peopletrackingsystem\login.php on line 10
Warning: mysql_connect(): Error while reading greeting packet. PID=6940 in C:\xampp\htdocs\peopletrackingsystem\login.php on line 10
Warning: mysql_connect(): MySQL server has gone away in C:\xampp\htdocs\peopletrackingsystem\login.php on line 10
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\peopletrackingsystem\login.php on line 10
(backstory: my Apache is also having a problem with localhost/127.0.0.1. It only appears blank page every time I try to access it with just localhost. So I always put the port every time I try to access it. I already removed all unnecessary port in hosts file. I already change the listen port of the httpd.conf and the Server name too with the port in it)

Answer 1

You can't add the port in "localhost:85", try it like this:
$connection = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","") OR die(mysqli_error());