Parse Error - help!

[dushkin]

Hi. I am getting the same error no matter how many times I manipulate the data. Could somebody pls help? I am trying to get PHP to connect to mySQL on the same (local) machine and keep getting:

Parse error: parse error in /my_path/entry.php on line 4

when I go to line 4 I see that it is the dbconnect.php include. For dbconnect I have:

mysql_connect(\"127.0.0.1\", \"root\", \"my_pwd\") or

die(\"Could not connect\");

mysql_select_db(\"guestbook\") or
die(\"Could not select\");

Am I missing something here? Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

[Anon]

I'm not so sure you need to escape your quotes... try not doing the \" instead use just "

That should fix it.

[dushkin]

hi John. thanks for the reply.
actuall, it is odd, but i didn't type
those escapes when i submitted this posting.
they are not in my code.

any other suggestions would be really appreciated. i am going nuts over this. I can't connect to mySQL. Could it be in the way I set up and configured mySQL (not PHP?).

thanks again.
Peter

John wrote:

I'm not so sure you need to escape your quotes... try not doing the \" instead use just "

That should fix it.

[Anon]

Hi, try this:

$db_conn_id = mysql_connect("127.0.0.1", "root", "my_pwd") or die("Could not connect");

Best regards,

King Louie