Posted by viraj on 09/20/05 10:18

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/PHP/PHP_Installation/Q_21077014.html

~viraj.


On 9/19/05, Mark Rees <mrees@itsagoodprice.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to connect to my MySQL server with mysql_connect(...). The server
> is up and running, and I'm running Apache with PHP properly installed. :
>
> -----------------------
> But have you got the mysql extension? put this in a script
>
> <?php
> phpinfo();
> ?>
>
> and view the output to check
> ------------------------
> The code
> $hleServer = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password)
> or die("Error: Database. Error code: 1. Contact the web master!");
>
> $host, $user, and $password are set to correct values (checked and double
> checked). The funny thing is that not only does the function call fail, but
> I'm not even getting the text defined by die("..."). It seems that the
> function call is more or less a black hole. Of course the rest of the script
> doesn't execute either, I'm just left with a blank page.
>
> I didn't use to have this problem before (using PHP 5 now instead of 4).
>
> Thanks for any input on this problem...
>
>
> Arthur
>
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