Error on mysql_connect()

when mysql goes down (and it happens some times) it dispays a nasty error-msg saying something about :
"mysql-error: ...temp.sock blablabla"

(i only use this to display some news, the rest of the page still loads)

i use the

mysql_connect(...) or die ("blablabla")

, but what i really want is to NOT display the mysql-error string at all ???

in advance thanks for your help!

It would be:

$linkID = @mysql_connect("host:port", "user", "pass") or die('No MySQL. MySQL said: '.mysql_error());

Look up '@' (the error supression operator).