I'm a C.S. student and my teacher has recently assigned me a linux machine that had already had MySQL installed on it. I managed to set the root password, but that's about all I've changed.

When I try to connect to the MySQL server in a web page I created I use the following command.

$connect = mysql_connect("132.235.15.134:8080", "root", "Eval11s") or
die ("Hey check connect");

However I recieve this error on my browser...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /var/www/html/createmovie.php on line 2

by the way, I am using the "mysql_connect" function inside the php tags.

Is there something I'm missing here?

Thanks
Tim

im not amazin a mysql but this might help, the script you have it connecting to the database but then dosent know what to do with it so it thinks its undefined. try this after ... $connect = mysql_connect("132.235.15.134:8080", "root", "Eval11s") or
die ("Hey check connect");

$query = "SELECT * FROM contact order by id desc";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo "$row[ name of field ]":

that should display the field content or u can use the var for other things

What version of PHP are you running, and are you sure PHP is compiled with MySQL support? It is enabled by default in PHP 4 if I remember correctly, but in PHP 5. You may have to recompile PHP with the --with-mysql cofigure option.