Error:Can't connect to mysqlserver

[tsukey]

I tired doing a simple PHP form that retrieves data from a table in mysql database.

But I got an error as follows:

Error:Can't connect to local mysqlserver through

socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'(2)....

Why is that so?

[tommynanda]

I hope I could imagine ur code 😉 post some code

[tsukey]

These are parts of the code with errors:

$db = mysql_connect("localhost","root","1234567");
mysql_select_db("mydb",$db);
$result = mysql_db_query("Select * From Employees",$db);

[tommynanda]

Assuming that you're a Windows user...
Did you try entering into your account from command prompt?(mysql/bin/mysql.exe)... Is your MySQL server running?(mysql/bin/winmysqladmin.exe)

try changing your code to this...
$db = mysql_connect('localhost','','');
mysql_select_db("mydb",$db);
$result = mysql_db_query("Select * From Employees",$db);

TommYNandA