need help with a PHP contact form

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i'm trying to build a contact form so people can reach me and i want to save the data to mySQL database, but i'm receiving the following message when trying to use the contact form and submit

the data.

 

"Could not connect: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)"

 

<?php

// Pick up the form data and assign it to variables
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$topic = $_POST['topic'];
$comments = $_POST['comments'];

// Build the email (replace the address in the $to section with your own)
$to = '[email protected]';
$subject = "New message: $topic";
$message = "$name said: $comments";
$headers = "From: $email";

// Open database connection
$conn = mysql_connect('mysql3.freehostia.com', '*****', '*****');
mysql_select_db('********');

if (!$conn)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }



// Insert data
$query = "INSERT INTO submissions (name, email, topic, comments) ...
  VALUES ('$name', '$email', '$topic', '$comments')";
mysql_query($query);

// Close connection
mysql_close($conn);


// Redirect
header("Location: success.html"); 

 

 

 

 

i have replaced my personal data with  "*****"

thanks!