# Couldn't connect server

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/couldnt-connect-server/316178>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [November 15, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/couldnt-connect-server/316178 "2010-11-15T11:33:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![freshy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@freshy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/freshy)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/couldnt-connect-server/316178/1 "2010-11-15T11:33:12Z")

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I have this php code,

\<?php  
$users=“root”;  
$host=“localhost”;  
$password="";  
$database=“kirupa”;  
$connection=mysql\_connect($host,$users,$password)  
or die(“Couldn’t connect to server”);  
$db=mysql\_select\_db($database,$connection)  
or die(“Couldn’t connect to server”);  
$query=“INSERT INTO users SET;  
name=‘Peter’,location=‘Karang’,date=CURDATE()”;  
$result=mysql\_query($query) or die (“Couldn’t execute query”);  
echo “New name added to database\<br\>”;  
?\>

and I got this - Couldn’t connect to server.  
Could someone point out why I couldn’t connect to server ?