I am new to PHP and MySQL. I install php and everything went ok but when i install mysql, the installation went well but i ca not use it. I am currently running on a windows machine. When I try to create a database, this is the error I receive \"ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: \'@localhost\' to database \'portal\'\". I don\'t know what this means but I did create a hosts file in my WINNT folder. This did not solve the problem. I try using mysql -u (username) -p (password), this also gives me the same error message. Please help, all suggestions are welcome.