Hi Ian,
This maybe a daft question (but in the line below) have you defined these
values in an include file somewhere?
$dbcnx = @mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'mypasswd');
Bob E.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian R-P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:35 AM
Subject: [php-list] Having a problem with coding from a book
> Hey everyone
>
> Just got this book "Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP &
> MySQL" May 2005 Version. I'm getting throught it slowly. I just got to page
> 74, and ran the jokelist.php(
> http://localhost/Book_code/chapter4/jokelist.php) and everytime i run it, i
> get a blank white screen.
>
> I go to view the source and i get this coding blow the dashes:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> <head>
> <title>Our List of Jokes</title>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
> </head>
> <body>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> It stops there and no more furthur, i've tried many things, like using past
> examples and growing off from those but still nothing. Is there something
> wrong with this coding:
> ----------------------------------------------------
> <?php
>
> // Connect to the database server
> $dbcnx = @mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'mypasswd');
> if (!$dbcnx) {
> exit('<p>Unable to connect to the ' .
> 'database server at this time.</p>');
> }
>
> // Select the jokes database
> if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]('ijdb')) {
> exit('<p>Unable to locate the joke ' .
> 'database at this time.</p>');
> }
>
> ?>
> -------------------------------------------------
> It seems thats where my main problem is. I've also tried connecting to my
> database from another computer(Query Browser) and it can see everything.
> Same from my computer. All firewalls are shut off. My database is named
> ijdb.
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