Not connecting to MySQL

[jcarlin14]

I am using code that I know works from previous pages I have developed, but for some reason the PHP won't connect to the DB and I am getting a "No database selected" error.

My coding is:

mysql_connect("localhost","user","password") or die ('Error: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("name of database");

Is there a special naming format for the database?

[Livewire]

Database is prefixed by your cpanel name, so if you originally told it to name it forum, it's now cpanelnamegoeshere_forum.

That prevents all the users who have "forum" as a database from interfering with each other


That said I peeked on the server and you actually have it right, so I'd say do mysql_select_db ("name of database")or die ('Error@2: ' . mysql_error());

That way you'll be able to see the error being returned from the select_db command.