Hello Ive recently installed Apache 2, PHP 5.02 and MYSQL 4.1 on Windows XP.

I am now tyring to connect to a database called bloomdb i have created in comman prompt mySQL.

I used an included script for security reasons. Here are the two pages (db_config.php and temp_con.php)

DB_CONFIG

<?php
$db_host = "localhost";
$db_user = "root";
$db_password = "password i used whe installing and connecting to MYSQL in command prompt";
$db_name = "bloomdb";
?>

TEMP_CON.PHP

<?php
require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/config/db_config.php");

$connection = mysql_connect($db_name, $db_user, $db_password) or die("Error - Cannot connect to MYSQL Database");
echo "Connected Successfully";
?>

The error i get is: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() on line 4 of temp_con.

Now i have searched the net for this problem and found it is that mysql is not enabled?. Not with PHP 5 by default, I think i have done what you said in this guide correctly but not too sure.

When you say uncomment what does that mean?, can any of you nice people explain how to enable it in very SIMPLE SIMPLE terms please.

Huge thanks in advance.

Chris