external Sql Database 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;

[nnichols]

When you call your connectToDB() function insert your details instead of 'user1' etc.

connectToDB('freesql.org', 'user1', 'pass1' , 'db_name'); 

function connectToDB($host, $uname, $pass, $db_name) {
$db = mysql_pconnect($host, $uname, $pass) or die('Failed to connect to db server');
mysql_select_db($db_name) or die('Failed to select db');
return $db;
}

Hope this helps 😉