You would also need to set special GRANT privileges for user "paul".

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-database.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html

Also of note ...

-snip-
If you manually create a directory under the data directory (for example, with mkdir), the server considers it a database directory and it shows up in the output of SHOW DATABASES.
-snip-

- Jon

On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Jake McGraw wrote:

Ah, you may need to modify the @mysql_query() command like so:

@mysql_query('CREATE DATABASE '.$_REQUEST['db']);

So that the final submitted query looks like (for $_REQUEST['db'] =
'myDatabase'):

CREATE DATABASE myDatabase

Whereas before you were issuing the query:

myDatabase

Which makes no sense and would have resulted in an error, except that
you were using an the error control (@) operator. See
http://us2.php.net/@ for more information.

- jake

On 7/11/07, PaulCheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can anybody see what I am doing wrong?

Using Mike McGrath's book "PHP 5 in easy steps" I have been trying to get both his textbook example on page 144 "Creating a database" and the example from the www.ineasysteps.com website to work. Not being able to get either the textbook example or "create_db.php" to work and in pure frustration I contacted the publishers and got a reply from Mike and implemented his suggested changes; Using the MySQL "show databases;" line command to verify
database creation, it shows no database was created. Here is the code
including the Mike's suggested changes. It all appears to work on the
surface; but you will need to check a little deeper under the surface to see
what I mean.

Paul

<!-- example for PHP 5.0.0 final release -->
<?php
$conn = @mysql_connect( "localhost", "paul", "enter" )
 or die( "Sorry - could not connect to MySQL" );

$rs1 = @mysql_query( $_REQUEST['db'] );
$rs2=  @mysql_list_dbs($conn);

$list = "";

for( $row=0; $row < mysql_num_rows( $rs2 ); $row++ )
{
  $list .= mysql_tablename( $rs2, $row ) . " | ";
}
?>

<html>
 <head>
  <title>Creating databases</title>
 </head>
 <body>
<form action="<?php echo( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ); ?> " method="post">

 Current databases: <?php echo( $list ); ?>
 <hr>
 Name:<input type = "text" name = "db">
 <input type = "submit" value = "Create database">
 </form>
 </body>
</html>
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