June 13th, 2003, 06:17 AM
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voting poll problems
firstly thanks mitch for writing an easy to follow article on creating a voting poll.
but... i couldn't get it working as expected, and being new to this php thing, i'm struggling to work out why.
managepoll.php wouldn't connect to the database when trying to add or delete a poll.
the problem seems to be with the '@$svrConn = ...' and '@$dbConn = ...' lines.
my (isp provided) mySQL control panel produced this connection script:
PHP Code:
$dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "my_db_name", "my_password") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("my_db_name");
once i replace mitch's code with this, everything works fine, but can someone explain why?
thanks in advance.
pete
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