Connecting to a database

[phpnewbie03]

I need help connecting to and using a database. But first, conneting to. My connection strings are the following:

$dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "zachweb_zachweb", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("zachweb_database");

Please tell me how to use these connection strings to access my database, after having granted all permissions to my user 'zachweb_zachweb'. Thanks

[Shrike]

mysql_select_db ("zachweb_database", $dbh);

After that all mysql_query() calls will use that link (until you create another one anyway)

[erikwebb]

Just for simplicity sake, the 2nd argument of the mysql_select_db() function isn't neccessary as long as you only have one open database connection.

Simple = Less chance of typo 😃