Gary, you can check this by either creating a file containing this: <?php phpinfo(); ?> and putting it up on your webserver, then open in with your browser, or you could look at the output of "php -i | less" on the command line. After you enabled the mysqli extension on your host, you might change mysqli_connect('$var', '$var2', ...); to mysqli_connect($var, $var2, ...) One side node.. you should apply addslashes() also to $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'), because an evil person could manipulate the value of that variable to execute SQL-Injections. Bye 2009/3/14 Gary <gwpaul@xxxxxxx>: > Thanks for your quick reply, but I do not know what that means... Where > would I find this out and how would I accomplish this if it is not done? > > Thanks again. > > "Per Jessen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:gpgq8i$h5g$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Gary wrote: > >> I am recieving a fatal error trying to connect to my server/mysql. >> This is my first attempt at connecting to a remote server, have been >> successful with localhost (apache). I had the variation of not putting >> the hostname & others into a variable, but that did not work either. >> >> I have also genericised the username and password for this post. Host >> name is correct. >> >> Can anyone enlighted me as to what I am not doing correctly? >> >> >> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysqli_connect() in > > Check if the mysqli extension has been loaded. > > > /Per > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zürich (10.9°C) > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php