I am using an example from the "PHP and MySQL Web Development" book by Welling and Thompson, and it utlizes the mysqli connection. Anyways, here's my line of code and the error it produces: [code] function db_connect() { $handle = new mysqli('localhost', 'user, 'pass', 'db'); if (!$handle) { return false; } return $handle; } [/code] and the error: Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: mysqli in d:\inetpub\technitrolinc\cms\db_fns.php on line 11 I am using php 4.4.1 on a shared host. Is there any way, if the above can't work with that version, that I can get this to work without using mysqli?