Question

I’m hosting a website on Zymic (free host) that utilizes MySQL. I opened an account, and wrote the SIMPLEST function to connect to the DB. It looks like this:

<?php     $conn = mysql_connect('uuuq.com','paulasplace_sudo','mypassword');     if(!$con)     {         die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());     }     else     {         echo('mysql connected successfully!');     } ?> 

but it throws this error:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111 in /www/uuuq.com/p/a/u/paulasplace/htdocs/index.php on line 9 Could not connect: Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111

Any ideas what might be wrong?

Answer 1

This may be just from when you copied the code into your post, but you store the results of mysql_connect() into $conn, but the if statement checks a different variably $con…