jimmyc

Great, thank you very much. PHP Freaks rocks!  :)

That was it!!! Thanks very much!  ;D ;D :D :D Will keep WAMP in mind for future installations. Thanks! Does something like WAMP exist for Linux (Debian)?

Yes, I installed them all myself. I will check out WAMP. Thanks for the advice.  ;)

Btw, I've tried connecting to the db with or without a password and it yields the same blank page. $host = "localhost"; $user = "root"; $pass = ""; $connect = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to mysql server"); When I go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ I do need to supply the username "root" and password "admin" prior to the page being rendered. Thanks.

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin works fine. And it lists the databases located under C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\data I can add a new database, table, anything under phpMyAdmin. But I can't see it from any PHP page that I write. For php info - here is what I get: mysqli MysqlI Support enabled Client API library version 4.1.7 Client API header version 4.1.7 MYSQLI_SOCKET /tmp/mysql.sock Directive Local Value Master Value mysqli.default_host localhost localhost mysqli.default_port 3306 3306 mysqli.default_pw no value no value mysqli.default_socket no value no value mysqli.default_user root root mysqli.max_links Unlimited Unlimited mysqli.reconnect Off Off Is mysqli...the "i" a problem? Thanks for your help!

It prints nothing...blank page.  :'( If I put an echo prior to the mysql_connect, that will print on the page fine but it dies just afterward and won't print any other echo statements. <?php $host = "localhost"; $user = "root"; $pass = "admin"; echo $host; $connect = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to mysql server");

I apologize if this is overly simple but I've had no luck getting it to work nor finding an answer to this. I've installed Apache, PHP, MySQL on WindowsXP and they all work. Meaning I can look at php info() and see a nice page, Apache gives me the default page and when I open the MySQL Command Line Client I can connect to the default databases, perform a query, etc. Also, I installed phpMyAdmin and can see the MySQL databases from the phpMyAdmin pages (which are php pages). However I cannot figure out how to "connect" to MySQL from a PHP page. I've used different variations of the following code, but they all yield a blank page. Any idea what I am doing wrong? It seems like this should be the simplest part. And since the phpMyAdmin page sees the databases I really don't get it. This php page is saved to C:/www/test and the databases are located under C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.0/data <?php $host = "localhost"; $user = "root"; $pass = "admin"; $connect = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Could not connect to mysql server"); $sql = mysql_create_db("test1"); if (!sql) {   echo "there was an error" . mysql_error(); } else { echo "database test was created"; } Thanks for any help you can provide. -Jim