Can't make connection to mySQL

[mmresnick]

I am getting a weird result when I try to connect to a mySQL database. I am running mySQL off an Apache server on a linux box. When I use the standard:

     @ $db = mysql_pconnect ("localhost","root","password")

nothing happens. In an HTML document, the rest of the page after this command is lost...nothing get sent--no PHP statements following or even straight HTML. When I try running a small test script from the command line, nothing happens. I don't get an error message, just nothing. I tried logging in to mySQL using "localhost" as the host and it works fine. Any ideas?

Thanks if anyone can help me solve this problem!

[statrat]

The @ sign turns off error messages. remove it and see what it says then.

[cgraz]

Yes, that's good advice. You could go even further by adding mysql_error(). I'd change that code to

mysql_connect("localhost","root","password") or die(mysql_error());

And see what that prints out. You should find your problem quickly.

Cgraz