InspIRCd v4 is still early in development!
If you use this branch you may experience crashes, weird behaviour, and unannounced breaking changes.
You probably want to use InspIRCd v3 instead.
The "mysql" Module (v4)
This module depends on a third-party library (libmysqlclient) and must be manually enabled at compile time.
Once you have installed the dependency you can enable this module using the following command:
./configure --enable-extras mysql
Description
This module provides the ability for SQL modules to query a MySQL database.
Configuration
To load this module use the following <module>
tag:
<module name="mysql">
<database>
The <database>
tag defines a MySQL database to connect to. This tag can be defined as many times as required.
Name | Type | Default Value | Description |
---|---|---|---|
module | Text | None | Required! This MUST be set to "mysql" to connect to a MySQL database. |
id | Text | None | Required! The name that SQL-using modules can refer to this <database> tag using. |
host | Text | None | Required! The hostname or IP address of a MySQL server. |
port | Number | None | Required! The port on which the MySQL server is listening. |
user | Text | None | Required! The username to log into the MySQL server with. |
pass | Text | None | Required! The password to log into the MySQL server with. |
name | Text | None | Required! The name of the MySQL database to use. |
charset | Text | None | If defined then a custom character set to use with the MySQL server. |
ssl | Boolean | No | New in v3.15.0! Whether to connect to the MySQL server using TLS (SSL). |
Example Usage
<database module="mysql"
id="opers"
host="localhost"
port="3306"
user="ircd_opers"
pass="changeme"
name="inspircd"
charset="utf8mb4"
ssl="yes">