cheers but i gotta thank all of you for having the time to try and help me

Good news managed to get the wamp server working, it turned out that there was a file in system 32 that needed to be edited or something.

what do you mean new user ? yeh i have the db made there is a took on the control panel that lets me do its the same as in the wamp tutorials did exactly the same thing just over the website instead and yeh i used localhost that might be why ill check with them and see if i should make the path loca...

i have managed to get the codes working on my own website the only problem is its still not connecting to the database somehow still comes back with no database selected, im sure all the paths are correct the username and password are in i have tried every way around it i can think of just dont know...

sorry for the late reply, been at work all day.

Cool ill have a look throught it have you got the link ?

thx

Nope i tried that again throught wamp still giving me the same message tried on firefox and IE later on ill post some screenshots of the file locations ect and the page telling me it wont connect =[ everything is online and should be working i just dont understand why not =[
thx

Ahhhh thx alot for that i didnt even realise it was wrong, ill try again see if i can get things working tomoz after work thx for all the help =]

Ok thx just to check so instead of the old code it would be something like this ? <?php $db = mysql_connect("localhost","Username","Password") or die("Could not connect to db"); if (!$db) die ("no db"); if(!mysql_select_db("test=,$db")) die...

yeh it was all in the correct folders but what i done now is i decided for now until i find what the problem is, ill host it on my website the only problem now is im not sure what to change the connect coding to <?php $db = mysql_connect("localhost","root","") or die(&q...

I did try using firefox just to be sure but i didnt make it my default browser, I dont think that would make alot of difference but im still not sure ?