Can't connect to mysql

[ab3n]

Hey all,

I recently created a very basic cms and had everything running perfectly on my web server at home, however when I uploaded the site to my webhost it won't connect to my database!

Here is the code it has a problem with:

function db_connect()
{
   $handle = new mysqli('localhost', 'content', 'password', 'content'); 
   if (!$handle)
   {
     return false;
   }
   return $handle;
}

I now that mysqli needs php5 (which my webhost has 4.4.1) but when I try every other combination I can think of (including new mysql, new mysql_connect, etc) I still get the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: mysql_connect in /home/www/xxxxxxxxx.com/db_fns.php on line 5

what is the correct code to connect to my mysql database?

[Tezread]

try this

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL); 
ini_set('display_errors', '1'); 
$user = "xxxxxxxx";
$host = "xxxxxxxx";
$password = "xxxxxxxxxx";
$connection = @mysql_connect($host, $user, $password)
or die ("Couldn't connect to server.");
$database = "xxxxxxxxx";
$db = @mysql_select_db($database, $connection)
or die ("Couldn't select database.");
?>