Thank you to everybody, turns out that in the godaddy control panel, you have the option of php4 or php5, and they have 4 as the default. A call to gd and I was able to switch and it now works. Thanks again for all your help! Gary ""Gary"" <gwpaul@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:D1.A0.60648.83BEBB94@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >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 > > <?php > > // Receiving variables > @$pfw_ip= $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; > @$first_name = addslashes($_POST['first_name']); > @$last_name = addslashes($_POST['last_name']); > @$company = addslashes($_POST['company']); > @$phone = addslashes($_POST['phone']); > @$email = addslashes($_POST['email']); > @$url = addslashes($_POST['url']); > @$comments = addslashes($_POST['comments']); > > // Validation > if (strlen($phone) <8) > { > die("<p align='center'><font face='Arial' size='3' color='#FF0000'>Please > enter a valid phone</font></p>"); > } > if (strlen($phone) >15) > { > die("<p align='center'><font face='Arial' size='3' color='#FF0000'>Please > enter a valid phone</font></p>"); > } > > if (! ereg('[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\@[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]+', $email)) > { > die("<p align='center'><font face='Arial' size='3' color='#FF0000'>Please > enter a valid email</font></p>"); > } > // checks if bot > > if ($_POST['address'] != '' ){ > > > die("Changed field"); > > } > //Connect To Database > $hostname='h50mysql43.secureserver.net'; > $username='myusername'; > $password='mypassword'; > $dbname='mydbname'; > $usertable='tablename'; > > $dbc = mysqli_connect('$hostname','$username','$password') > or die('Error connecting to MySQL server'); > mysql_select_db('$usertable'); > > $query = "INSERT INTO contact(first_name, last_name, company, phone, > email, url, comments) ". > "VALUES > ('$first_name','$last_name','$company','$phone','$email','$url','$comments') > "; > > $result = mysqli_query($dbc, $query) > or die('Error querying database.'); > > mysqli_close($dbc); > > //Sending Email to form owner > $pfw_header = "From: $email\n" > . "Reply-To: $email\n"; > $pfw_subject = "Subject Message"; > $pfw_email_to = "email@xxxxxxxxx"; > $pfw_message = "Visitor's IP: $pfw_ip\n" > . "name: $first_name . ' '.$last_name\n" > . "company: $company\n" > . "phone: $phone\n" > . "email: $email\n" > . "url: $url\n" > . "comments: $comments\n" > > @mail($pfw_email_to, $pfw_subject ,$pfw_message ,$pfw_header ) ; > > echo("<p align='center'><font face='Arial' size='3' color='#FF0000'>Thank > you for your submission, we will respond shortly!</font></p>"); > echo "Thank you $first_name for your request<br />"; > echo "We have the following information from you.<br />";?> > <br /> > <?php > echo "First Name $first_name<br />"; > echo "Last Name: $last_name<br />"; > echo "Company Name: $company<br />"; > echo "Phone Number: $phone<br />"; > echo "Web Address: $url<br />"; > echo "Email Address: $email.<br />";?> > <br /> > <?php > echo "Your Comment: $comments<br />"; > ?> > <br ? /> > <?php > echo 'Please review your information and feel free to correct any that may > be incorrect.<br />';?> > <br ? /> > <?php > echo 'We will contact your shortly!'; > ?> > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
