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Thank you ginerjm. Good advice indeed!

Thank you very much to the Administrator and Guru. I have a much better understanding of the issues and got past my problems.

When I say I'm a noobie, I'm not kidding! I'm using a hosting service (Bluehost) that offers PHP 5.4.30 and mySQL 5.5.37 and am trying to work through a beginners tutorial. Using the service's PHPMyAdmin tool, I have no trouble creating a database and table that I can manipulate using this tool. My problem is with my very first php command: $db = new mysqli(localhost, 'me', 'pw', 'RR'); 'me' and 'pw' are my Bluehost signon credentials that were also required to get into the PHPMyAdmin tool. 'RR' is the actual name of the database I'd created. I'm not sure if these are what mySQL is looking for. I also tried 'root' and a null password as done in the tutorial, but that didn't help. The message I get is: Connect failed: Access denied for user 'me'@'localhost' to database 'RR' I'd love to get somewhat proficient on PHP/mySQL. Please help.