We use this at work pg_connect("host={$hostname} dbname={$dbname} user={$user} password={$password}")) I don't think you need to specify the port.... -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Chua Sing [mailto:mondi0924@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 15 February 2003 05:42 To: pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PHP] PHP and POSTGRES under windows I have recently installed PHP and postgres(windows version by peerdirect) I accomplished linking the extension of postgres to php and made postgres to work with pgadminnII but I can't connect to the database using postgres functions this error always shows up on my page: "Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: connectDBStart() -- socket() failed: errno=2 No such file or directory " and this code is what I use to connect to the DB "<?php // Database variables // $dbhost = "db"; $dbname = "hbcdb"; $dbusername = "Mondi0924"; $dbpassword = "1236964"; $dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=$dbname user=$dbusername password=$dbpassword port=80"); if (!$dbconn) { header("Location: error.php3?errorcode=1"); exit; } ?>" I have been using postgres in the office using a linux server thats why I need postgres at home could you please help me thx. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly