You need to read up on the scope of variables within functions.
You should have something like:
function
getUserPermissions($shs_MySQLServer,$shsMySQLUser,$shs_MySQLPassword) {
if ($_SESSION['permissions'] == '') {
// Connecting, selecting database
$link = mysql_connect($shs_MySQLServer, $shs_MySQLUser,
$shs_MySQLPassword)
or die("MySQL Connect Error : " . mysql_error());
etc....
}
}
And call it with:
GetUserPermissions("server","user","password") where server,user and
password are the variables that contain those values.
On 9/1/03 2:20 PM, "Seth Willits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I try to connect to a database within a function, I get the
> following error. Why is this?
>
>
> MySQL Connect Error : Can't connect to local MySQL server through
> socket '/Private/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
>
> function getUserPermissions() {
> if ($_SESSION['permissions'] == '') {
> // Connecting, selecting database
> $link = mysql_connect($shs_MySQLServer, $shs_MySQLUser,
> $shs_MySQLPassword)
> or die("MySQL Connect Error : " . mysql_error());
>
> etc....
> }
> }
>
>
> Seth Willits
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