Re: Need help with PHP / MySQL connect problem

Matt Darby wrote:

Using this at the top of your script will allow PHP and MySQL to interact. $_POST['dbconn']=mysql_select_db("database_name", mysql_connect("server_name","user_name","password")); It does sound like you have notices and warnings turned off in php.ini: Find php.ini (not sure where it installs to in Windows version), and set error_reporting = E_ALL. This will show all notices and warnings generated by your PHP code; extremely usefull in debugging. Matt Darby Linda H wrote:

Hi, I'm running MySQL 4.0.21, Apache 2.0.52 and PHP 5.0.2 on a Windows XP system. I can run scripts with PHP and HTML statements and see correct output in my browser. But when I try to connect to MySQL I get nothing, including no error messages. One book I have says to run the following scrip to test the connection. It should print either the Resource name or an error message: <?php echo mysql_connect ('localhost','calendar','pass1234'); # host, user, password ?> I get no output at all, and if the statement is placed in a larger script, above html/PHP output, it suppresses that as well. Using the mysql monitor from the DOS command prompt, I can connect as user 'calendar' with password 'pass1234', select a database and execute SQL statements successfully. Can anyone help me figure out why I can't seem to connect, please? Linda

From the manual:

Return Values Returns a MySQL link identifier on success, or *FALSE* on failure. So if your connection is failing then it will not print anything to screen, try: echo (mysql_connect ('localhost','calendar','pass1234')) ? "connected" : mysql_error(); HTH, Mikey