I have installed PHP4 on my Windows 98 machine and have downloaded the latest MySQL server too. I can finally get my PHP scripts to run, but I'm now having problems when trying to connect to my database. I have followed the steps in the book by Julie Meloni PHP Essentials, and have, as far as I can tell, created a blank database in MySQL. I tried running some simple code from this book to create tables in this database, but it won't connect. When I added the code "or die(mysql_error())" to the line that tries to connect to the databse it throws up an error that says that I don't have access privileges to it or something like that. How do you create user access priviliges in MySQL and where would you put a username and password in the mysql_select_db() statement? Thanks. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]