Turns out that the $wpdb->update was running based on user being signed in via PHP. The variables that were placed into the condition statements were being ignored. To fix the issue I removed the $wpdb->update portion of the code from the ‘user is signed in’ condition and moved it to the ‘if empty’ conditional statements.
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Either you have a typo or your syntax is incorrect for this line: $dbconnection = new $wpdb($username, $password, $dbname, $hostname ); It should be: $dbconnection = new wpdb($username, $password, $dbname, $hostname ); (no $ in referencing the wpdb class)
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Yes, you can have 2, tens, even hundreds of individual servers running WordPress with the same codebase connected to the same database server. But there are lots of non-WordPress steps you need to take to get it working, and it may not solve your problem. You would need to figure out a load balancing solution, … Read more
First, you don’t need connection info when using the global $wpdb. It’s already connected. Second, if your insert is failing, then the first thing to check would be your data format. If you don’t specify a format, then it is handled as a string. See the docs for WPDB::insert: An array of formats to be … Read more
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