parse error help please

[ontwolf]

Believe it or not my host does not have MySql support so I need to go outside my domain to get a MySql database. I have gone to http://www.freesql.org/ to aquire my database. my question is this how do I configure my script to connect to data base. I continue to get the following error when I load script

Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' at line 5

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<?php
connectToDB("freesql.org", username, password);
function connectToDB("freesql.org", username, password)
{
global $dbname; (THIS IS LINE 5)

global $user_name;

global $password;

[Valkrin]

I can see one error in your code by just glancing at it. You are missing the closing curly brace for your function. It should be like so:

<?php
connectToDB("freesql.org", username, password);
function connectToDB("freesql.org", username, password)
{
global $dbname; (THIS IS LINE 5)

global $user_name;

global $password;
} //Closing curly brace

That might solve your problem, it might not but you definately need that closing curly brace for your function to operate.

[cgraz]

Don't you need to define the function before you call it?

function connectToDB()
{
$result = mysql_connect("freesql.org", "username", "password");

}

Then, call your function.

$conn = connectToDB();

But I think the parse error is because of your quotes. unless you're using username and password as variables (which you don't appear to be since you didn't use dollar signs), you need to put quotes around them.

$result = mysql_connect("freesql.org", "username", "password");

If they're variables, then you can

$result = mysql_connect("freesql.org", $username, $password);

Hope that helps.

Cgraz

[Rohan_Hill]

Originally posted by cgraz
Don't you need to define the function before you call it?

You used to, but not in PHP 4 🙂