Help with error Warning: mysql_pconnect() expects parameter 4 to be long, string

[maxwell_]

My copy of phpmyadmin suddenly stopped loading saying that extensions were undefined.
In the end I re-installed apache, php, mysql and phpmyadmin.
Everything seems to be working intill I load the last website I was working on
(which was working ok prior to re-install)
I now get this error

Warning: mysql_pconnect() expects parameter 4 to be long, string given in C:\server\www\myserver.dev\public_html\tutor_admin\includes\abe_connect.php on line 7

This is all code in abe_connect.php

$hostname_abe = "myserver.dev";
$database_abe = "abe";
$username_abe = "root";
$password_abe = "root";

$abe = mysql_pconnect($hostname_abe, $username_abe, $password_abe, $database_abe);

any help would be appreciated!

Regards Maxwell

[bradgrafelman]

As the manual states, [man]mysql_pconnect/man expects its fourth parameter to be an integer (the $client_flags parameter in the manual).

In other words, that code will never work, thus I highly doubt that same code was "working ok prior to re-install."