Windows 7 PHP MySQL Connection Issues [duplicate]
This question already has answers here : Cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication (7 answers) Closed 6 years ago . When I run $conn = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass); I am able to get a connection to the database but when i do a var_dump($conn) I get back bool(true) which is limiting me from having multiple connection to multiple servers. The original setup on this computer was XAMPP with a version of PHP 5.2 that was upgraded to PHP 5.3.4 via the PHP installer. It could connect to its local database with no problem (other than returning a boolean instead of the resource link