Thanks for all the help everyone sent me on this. However, nothing seems to make any difference whatsoever (except putting the 'localhost' part in quotes). I am still getting permission denied errors based on the user credentials. I have entered a user into the user table with host='localhost', user='php' and a password. I have entered these credentials into the db table also, and given the various privileges for this user to the specific database. I have run both mysqladmin reload and mysqladmin flush-privileges. I have even rebooted the machine. I have also tried typing GRANT SELECT,INSERT,DELETE,UPDATE TO php@localhost IDENTIFED BY *******, but this just throws up an error at the MySQL prompt. My PHP page can still not connect to the database. It just says: MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for user: 'php@localhost' (Using password: YES) I know the problem is a permissions thing, because if I connect to the test database as 'nobody', there is no problem. Again, any and all help will be appreciated. This is ridiculously frustrating, especially since I have no problem connecting to the database from a perl script. I am tempted to stop trying to learn PHP and build my entire web site using perl cgi instead. Thanks Evan Morris evan@exclusivebooks.com Tel: +27 11 792 2777 Fax: +27 11 792 2711 Cell: +27 82 926 3630 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
