retrieving info from mysql database

[Anon]

Can anyone offer any help as to why the following code does not retrieve information from MySQL database? I get an error message that says "Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/virtual/site522/fst/var/www/html/mysql1.php on line 16":

<?

$linkID = @mysql_pconnect(localhost, "", "");
mysql_select_db(dbname, $linkID);

$resultID = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM product", $linkID);

print "<table border=1><tr><th>Name:</th>";
print "<th>Quantity:</th><th>Price</th></tr>";

while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($resultID))
{

print "<tr>";
foreach ($row as $field)
{
print "<td>$field</td>";
}
print "<tr>";

}

print "</table>";

mysql_close($linkID);

?>

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Anon]

shouldn't this:

$linkID = @mysql_pconnect(localhost, "", "");

be

$linkID = @mysql_pconnect("localhost", "", "");

since you're using '@', you should also do error checking, like

if (!$linkID) {
print "could not connect to server";
exit;
}

Diego