<?php
//No short tags, some webservers have problems with them

$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'root';
$dbpass = 'password';

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Cant connect to mysql for some DareNET reason');

$dbname = 'name';
mysql_select_db($dbname);

?>