Busy — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:26:27 +0000

I assumed mysql was installed, sorry

you can do a search on your pc for mysql (should be a folder) or run php info() file to see whats installed

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 04:30:34 +0000

I think Greg is on the right track. The MySQL modules are probably not installed -- it happened to me recently too. Iirc, that was the same error I got.

Greg K — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:54:49 +0000

But would just missing the password casue it to say it was an "undefined function mysql_connect()" ?

Also just checked http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php and found the following:
mysql_connect() establishes a connection to a MySQL server. The following defaults are assumed for missing optional parameters: server = 'localhost:3306', username = name of the user that owns the server process and password = empty password.

Maybe PHP isn't set up on the server to use mysql? Does the install default to including these? or maybe need soemthing set in a php config file?

-Greg

Busy — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:47:58 +0000

missing password
mysql_connect("localhost","root","password");
if no password just leave the quotes

sessions:
you start a session, assign it a value and call it whenever

// very top of page
session_start();

// anywhere in page
$_SESSION["My_Session"] = "my session value";

// anywhere in page
echo "My session has the value: ".$_SESSION[My_Session];

Starting a session after anything printed to the screen will show a "headers already sent" error.

more info at http://www.php.net/session