How can I create a database within php?

[EDUARD59]

Please help:
I am trying to create a mysql database within a php script without any success.
I have a Linux operating system with an apache web server and a mysql database server
all on the same machine.I can create a database within the linux-mysql console but when I try to create the database by php programming is not possible.There is a
connection with the database server.
There is no message of error, simply the program can t process the query
“create database if not exists gestion”.
The program is the following:

<?php
	error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);
	ini_set(‘display_errors’,true);
	$conn=@mysql_connect(“localhost”,”user”,”pass”);
	If ($conn){
		echo “Connect”;
	}else{	
		echo “There is no connection”;
		}
	$consult=”CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS gestion”;
	$res=mysql_query($consult,$conn);
If ($res){
		echo “Success”;
	}else{	
		echo “Faillure”;
		}
?>

[bradgrafelman]

One problem I notice is that you have a bunch of curly quotes in your code, e.g. you have ‘display_errors’ instead of 'display_errors' and “localhost” instead of "localhost".

PHP does not recognize these curly quotes as string delimiters, and thus is probably throwing parse errors that you aren't seeing.

[halojoy]

[man]mysql_error[/man] [man]mysql_error[/man]
[man]mysql_error[/man]
[man]mysql_error[/man]
echo [man]mysql_error/man;

$consult=”CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS gestion”;
$res=mysql_query($consult,$conn);
If ($res){
echo “Success”;
}else{
    echo “Faillure”.'<br>';

echo mysql_error();

}