If I use the following code to connect to postgres using PHP: <?php echo "trying to connect to the database..."; $conn =pg_connect("host=localhost dbname=milker dbuser=s0460205 dbpass=password"); if (!$conn) { echo "no connection"; } ?> However, the connection is not made. If I try to run it from the command line in UNIX I get the following error: PHP warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: invalid connection option "dbuser" in /home/s0460205/public_html/first.php on line 12 The username, database name and password are definately right and my database is on the same server as the script (thus I assume localhost for host?) so should this not work? Many thanks for your help