On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 07:03, Mike Francis wrote: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > <head> > <title>Our List of Jokes</title> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" > content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> > </head> > <body> > <?php > // Connect to the database server > $dbcnx = @mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'MyPassword'); > if (!$dbcnx) { > echo '<p>Unable to connect to the ' . > 'database server at this time.</p>' ); Note that using the @ in front of the connect suppresses any error messsages that may be returned from the connect; I would get rid of that. Then add here: echo mysql_error(); > exit(); > } > // Select the jokes database > if (!@mysql_select_db('ijdb')) { And use mysql_error() here too. > exit('<p>Unable to locate the joke ' . > 'database at this time.</p>'); > } > ?> mysql_error() will return a useful error message. -- David Robley Backups? We doan *NEED* no steenking baX%^~,VbKx NO CARRIER -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
