Can't connect to MySQL

[Anon]

Anyone willing to help me? Thanks.

The line 18 is:

mysql_connect("localhost",user,rich);
@mysql_select_db("public");

The error message when I connect from IE.

Parse error: parse error in /home/user/public_html/login.php on line 18

[milind24]

Hey,
Try to give username and password in "" .

mysql_connect("localhost","user","rich");
@mysql_select_db("public");

[milind24]

hey ,

one more thing to do remove @ sign form the line @mysql_select_db("public");

only do code as below
$db="public";
mysql_select_db($db) or die ("could not select database");

try out this

[Anon]

still the same error. 🙁

[Anon]

$connection=mysql_connect("localhost","user","rich");
mysql_select_db("public");