Hey guys! I am having PHP/MySQL problems. I know there are a lot of you here who develop sites using the above, so dont you hide away!

I have a lil problemo...

Ill line out the problem for you. I run a local server on my PC. Everything works perfectly fine. If I use a simple script like this:

<?php
echo "Yo, welcome to Shotbeak Games";
?>

It works fine. Now I come to the point where I want to include MySQL. Ive run the MySQL Command Line Client to create a database called "shotbeak" and added a table "News" + a field "news".

Now I want to connect to MySQL of course with this:

<?php

$mysqli = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","password","shotbeak");

if(mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "It failed.";
}
else
{
echo "It worked";
}

echo "It wont even parse this";

?>

But you see, it doesnt go pass the $mysqli connection. Why? I know this might be a bit vague, but I have no idea why this happens... Everything works fine, but it doesnt want to connect properly...

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