This does not seem to be an installation problem - Your test [(!$connect_id = ] fails, since the connect returns false, so it does not run the condition. Compare: <?php if($a = false){echo "no good";}else{echo "condition true";} ?> -----Original Message----- From: Dan Shirah [mailto:mrsquash2@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:31 PM To: PHP List Subject: Confused All, Okay, I am a bit confused. I'm setting up another server to host PHP pages. I followed everything in the Manual for installing PHP. I'm running Windows Server 2003, IIS6.0 and PHP 5.2.6. And...it kind of works... If I do: <?php echo "Test"; ?> it prints fine. If I do: Today is: <?php echo date("l, F j, Y"); ?> it prints fine. If I do: You are recognized as: <?php echo substr($_SERVER['AUTH_USER'], 13); ?> I get no output. If I do: if (!$connect_id = ifx_connect("$database@$host", $user, $pass)) { // THE ACTUAL CONNECTION echo "Unable to connect to Informix Database\n"; // DISPLAY IF CONNECTION FAILS exit(); } I don't get a connection to the database and the "Unable to connect to Informix Database\n"; does not even display. I get no errors output to the screen and I have display_errors = On And I have error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE Any ideas? No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.14/1646 - Release Date: 02/09/2008 06:02 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php