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Re: MY PHP MySQL Function keeps returning error message: "Database Query Failed"

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Sep 18th, 2009

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Originally Posted by HFK11

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      $connection="mysql_connect('localhost', 'admin', '1admin') or die(mysql_error())";// host account password
1. $connection="mysql_connect('localhost', 'admin', '1admin') or die(mysql_error())";// host account password

If I may ever so gnetly ask a dumb question, why is the function call inside quotes? This results in $connection containing the string you see, rather than a handle referencing the desired database connection. To actually execute mysql_connect, you need to remove the double quotes.