Trying to connect to Mysql

[nothingme]

Hello there,

I'm using a Mac (10.5. and installed MAMP for PHP and MYSQL

I trying to build a blog. I just setup a database in phpmyadmin.

 

I created a php and start coding, everything works just fine, but when

I tried to connect to the mysql it gives me a blank page

 

I inserted this code

<?php
session_start();

    $connect = mysql_connect('localhost','root', 'root'); or die(mysql_error());
$db = mysql_select_db('blog',$connect);
$session_name = $_SESSION['uid'];


?>

but then the whole page turns to be blank page , but when I excluded this, it works just fine. I don't get it cause my database/phpmyadmin connected just fine.

 

Any help is much appreciated. Been trying to figure this out for hours.

[Pikachu2000]

You have an errant line-terminating semicolon between mysql_connect() and or die() . . .

[Pikachu2000]

You should be developing with error_reporting = -1 and display_errors = On in your php.ini file so errors such as that are reported, BTW.