On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:37 PM, MikeB <mpbrede@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have defined (just for testing) a user in my SQL named "pubuser" and > granted it access to a database "publications." Of course I also created the > database and two tables. > > I can access and manipulate the tables via phpMyAdmin and I can log in to > sql using pubuser via the command-line interface. > > I have the following php code: > > <?php // login.php > $db_hostname = 'localhost'; > $db_database = 'publications'; > $db_username = 'pubuser'; > $db_password = 'abc'; > ?> > > > also I have a test web page: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> > <title>Connect to SQL</title> > </head> > <body> > <?php > Echo "Hello"; > require_once 'login.php'; > echo "got require"; > $db_server = mysql_connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password); > if (!$db_server) > die("Unable to connect to MySQL: " . mysql_error()); > echo "Congrats, it seems you have connected to the server <br /> > host: $db_hostname<br /> > user: $db_username<br /> > password: $db_password <br /> > for database: $db_database<br />"; > print_r($db_server); > ?> > </body> > </html> > > If I try to run this, it briefly says "connecting to localhost" and then > indefinitely it says "waiting for localhost..." > > If I comment out the connect statement, the rest runs. What should I look > for? > > Thanks > MikeB > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > If you gave the priv through phpmyadmin, you might want to try running FLUSH PRIVILEGES to get those new ones to take effect. -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php