I am doing this on a remote mysql, I copied everyting exactly from the download for this book but I can't get the cmstables.php to run. here is my conn.php:

<?php

define('SQL_HOST','localhost');
define('SQL_USER','xxxx');
define('SQL_PASS','xxxx');
define('SQL_DB','com_contact');

$conn=mysql_connect(SQL_HOST,SQL_USER,SQL_PASS)
or die ('Could not connect to the database; ' . mysql_error());

mysql_select_db(SQL_DB,$conn)
or die ('Could not select database; ' . mysql_error());

?>

now when I set up the database on my server it said this is my php connection string:

         $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "xxx", "xxx") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
        mysql_select_db ("com_contact");

and yes were all the x's are I replace them with my user name and password. I even took the above connection string and replaced
require_once 'conn.php'; with the above connection string and still nothing. I whent back into my phpadmin page checked the database called com_contact and nothing is in there, no errors just a blank page. Any suggestions?

i know it´s a couple of... ehh... months ago... but!

"I am doing this on a remote mysql"

really... ? why do you use ->

"define('SQL_HOST','localhost');"

/sputnik