<?php
# Fill our vars and run on cli
# $ php -f db-connect-test.php
$dbname = 'name';
$dbuser = 'user';
$dbpass = 'pass';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$connect = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die("Unable to Connect to '$dbhost'");
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die("Could not open the db '$dbname'");
​
echo "connected to the database";

<?php
​
/**
 * Database Configuration
 *
 * All of your system's database configuration settings go in here.
 * You can see a list of the default settings in craft/app/etc/config/defaults/db.php
 */
​
return array(
    '*' => array(
        'tablePrefix' => 'craft',
    ),
    '.dev' => array(
        'server' => 'localhost',
        'user' => 'root',
        'password' => 'root',
        'database' => 'nec',
    ),
    'nec.dev.stagingdomain.com' => array(
        'server' => 'localhost',
        'user' => 'staging-user',
        'password' => 'staging-password',
        'database' => 'staging-database',
    ),
    '.com' => array(
        'server' => 'localhost',
        'user' => '',
        'password' => '',
        'database' => '',
    ),
);