Hi folks. I posted this on the Zend forum, but I'm hoping I can get a speedier reply here. I've tried every solution provided on this forum with no luck. When I restart mysql, everything appears ok.

sudo /usr/local/zend/bin/zendctl.sh restart 
Password:
/usr/local/zend/bin/apachectl stop [OK]
/usr/local/zend/bin/apachectl start [OK]
Stopping Zend Server GUI [Lighttpd] [OK]
spawn-fcgi: child spawned successfully: PID: 7943
Starting Zend Server GUI [Lighttpd] [OK]
Stopping Java bridge [OK]
Starting Java bridge [OK]
Shutting down MySQL
. SUCCESS! 
Starting MySQL
. SUCCESS!

Pinging locahost is also OK and resolve dns to IP.

ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.048 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.076 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.064 ms

But when I attempt to access the local url for my app, I get the dreaded:

Message: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2).

This is a show-stopper for me. I appreciate any assistance. Thank you.