Posted by David Haynes on 06/18/06 11:38

dude wrote:
>> Try "127.0.0.1" instead of "localhost". This usually does the trick.
>> Ow and
>> get a real name, dude :D
>> Best regards,
>> Jan Thomä
>
> hey dude, this doesn't work dude ... what a disaster dude :(
> eny more tricks i can try, dude ?
> google says allot but nothing that i can use and solve this ...
>
> aha, about the name, i will have to change it, its terrible :D
Can you connect to mysql from the command line?
If not, then you need to work out how to create the account
user@localhost in mysql before trying to connect to it from php.

If this is your problem, take a look at the 'GRANT' section of mysql.

-david-

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