On Wednesday 28 June 2006 19:55, Chris wrote: > Russbucket wrote: > > I took an example of a script from the PHP documentation and try to > > connect to my database. If I leave in the or die part of line 3, I get > > nothing, if I comment out that part I get the echo message on line 4. > > > > <?php > > // Connecting and selecting the database > > $conn = mysql_connect ('localhost', 'finemanruss', 'XXXXXXXl') or die > > ('Could not connect : ' . mysql_error()); > > echo 'Connected successfully'; > > mysql_select_db ("Lions", $conn); > > > > // Preform SQL query > > $query = 'SELECT * FROM Moses_Lake_Lions'; > > $result = mysql_query ($query) or die ( 'Query failed; ' . > > mysql_error()); ?> > > > > I know line three works without the or die part since I have a 2nd script > > that is almost the same (no or die) and it retrieves info from my DB. > > Try it the same as the php manual page: > > $conn = mysql_connect('....'); > if (!$conn) { > die("Could not connect: " . mysql_error()); > } > > -- > Postgresql & php tutorials > http://www.designmagick.com/ Chris thanks for the response. I got this working and solved a couple other issues. Now just have one I'm working on where thedata is not being sorted correctly. I will be looking at that tommorrow. Thanks again for the response. -- Russ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php