Please help me.

[yashyash1]

Hello,
I am completely new to PHP+MYSQL and i m learning it from a ebook. I wrote my frist script which was a simple Guestbook.
But i cound not connect to MYSQL database. the script which i write for connecting database is as follows

<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "nobody", "password") or
die ("could not connect to database")
mysql_select_db("guestbook") or
die (" Could not select database ")
?>

The error which i get is

Warning: mysql_connect(): Unknown MySQL Server Host 'yashtech' (2) in /home/yashtech/public_html/dbconnect.php on line 2
could not connect to database

My website is www.yashtech.net please help me.

[Jason_Batten]

Use single quotes.

mysql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password');