No luck making a databast connection

I've included db.php into my script, and this is all it contains:

$host = 'localhost';
$username = '***';
$password = '***';
$database = '***';
$connection = mysql_pconnect($host, $username, $password);
$mysql_select_db($database, $connection);

obviously with the other fields filled out.

My webhost tells me to use this script:

$dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "<USERNAME HERE>", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or
die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("<TABLE NAME>");

neither one of these methods work, actually - I get this error:
[the contents of my db.php file here, in plain text!]No Database Selected

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

>
> $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "<USERNAME HERE>", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or
> die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
> mysql_select_db ("<TABLE NAME>");
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^???
should be:
mysql_select_db($database);
>
> neither one of these methods work, actually - I get this error:
> [the contents of my db.php file here, in plain text!]No Database Selected
>
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>
Good luck this time!
Wangs

"Taliesson Wang" <wangii@163.net.no.spam> wrote in message
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>
> >
> > $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "<USERNAME HERE>", "<PASSWORD HERE>")
or
> > die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
> > mysql_select_db ("<TABLE NAME>");
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^???
> should be:
> mysql_select_db($database);
> >
> > neither one of these methods work, actually - I get this error:
> > [the contents of my db.php file here, in plain text!]No Database
Selected
> >
> > Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> Good luck this time!
> Wangs

That's what I've been doing

doesn't work!

"Taliesson Wang" <wangii@163.net.no.spam> wrote in message
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>
> >
> > $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "<USERNAME HERE>", "<PASSWORD HERE>")
or
> > die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
> > mysql_select_db ("<TABLE NAME>");
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^???
> should be:
> mysql_select_db($database);
> >
> > neither one of these methods work, actually - I get this error:
> > [the contents of my db.php file here, in plain text!]No Database
Selected
> >
> > Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> Good luck this time!
> Wangs

This is what i have, the database is empty, and it's just a testing server
anyway, so you can have the username+password:

$host = 'localhost';
$username = 'yem_dbtest';
$password = 'dbpass';
$database = 'yem_testdb';

$connection = mysql_connect($host, $username, $password);

//$mysql_select_db($database, $connection);
mysql_select_db($database);

Not working!!!
This is what I have on my IE:

$host = 'localhost'; $username = 'yem_dbtest'; $password = 'dbpass';
$database = 'yem_testdb'; $connection = mysql_connect($host, $username,
$password); //$mysql_select_db($database, $connection);
mysql_select_db($database); No Database Selected

> Not working!!!
> This is what I have on my IE:
>
> $host = 'localhost'; $username = 'yem_dbtest'; $password = 'dbpass';
> $database = 'yem_testdb'; $connection = mysql_connect($host, $username,
> $password); //$mysql_select_db($database, $connection);
> mysql_select_db($database); No Database Selected
>
>

If *this* really is what your IE comes up with, than it's just that the
page doesn't get parsed with PHP! Cause it's showing it as plain text.
Is it a *.php file? And do other *.php files work for instance with only
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

stevijn
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// drbobco
// .com

>
> $host = 'localhost'; $username = 'yem_dbtest'; $password = 'dbpass';
> $database = 'yem_testdb'; $connection = mysql_connect($host, $username,
> $password); //$mysql_select_db($database, $connection);
> mysql_select_db($database); No Database Selected
>
>
seems that your php engine not work.
check the doc type, maybe should be .php not .php3.

T.Wang