MySQL Connection Failiure

[maxsslade]

i have written this code:

<?
$link_id = mysql_connect("localhost", "maxweb", "**********");
if(mysql_select_db("mysql", $link_id) echo "Connected to the localhost.";
else die ("Connection failed, try again lator.");
?>

but php thinks there is something wrong with it, i get this error:

Parse error: parse error in c:/windows/desktop/max/websites/php book/mysql.php on line 3

what can i do to get it right (i am working from a book called 'beginning PHP 4')
can you correct the code for me ??

Thanks,
Max Slade

[Anon]

hi,

if you have put the code exactly as shown, try putting the localhost."; word on the same line as echo stmt.
should work

steve

[yelvington]

PHP does not care about line endings in code and adding or removing line enders will not fix the problem.

Count the parentheses in this line:

if(mysql_select_db("mysql", $link_id) echo "Connected to the localhost.";