I'm sorry about my lack of experience with these things, and I'm not sure if this is a problem with PHP or with my server configuration.

Whenever I use the mysql_connect function and store the result in a variable, the arguements aren't parsed.


mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password");

works perfectly fine.


The problem arises when I use

$link=mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password");

and it says "Access denied for user apache@localhost (Using password: NO)". Yes, I recoded the script for the main page of my site, but there are many things that I shouldn't have to (i.e. it should work like that ^), like vBulletin.

Like I said, I'm new at this and I don't know if it's my configuration or a problem with PHP...but I hope it's the former, and any help would be appreciated.