Why won't this work??

[Barrucadu]

myfileminder.com/articles/dbconnect.php

$server="---server---";
$user="---username---";
$pass="---password---";
$database="---database---";
$sql="---query---";

webmaster.php

include 'http://www.myfileminder.com/articles/dbconnect.php';	 
mysql_connect($server,$user,$pass) or die("Could not connect to database: " . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($database) or die("Could not select the database: " . mysql_error());
$result=mysql_query($sql) or die("Could not query the database: " . mysql_error());
mysql_close();

When I run it I get the error

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) in e:\domains\m\myfileminder.com\user\htdocs\articles\webmaster.php on line 16

line 16 is this:

mysql_connect($server,$user,$pass) or die("Could not connect to database: " . mysql_error());

but I cant find the problem.

 

[aween]

include 'http://www.myfileminder.com/articles/dbconnect.php';

you cant do that if you are on a different server/ip

do this:

include 'dbconnect.php';

 

[Barrucadu]

hmm... thing is I want that script to work on other peoples sites, its an article script I'm working on, thats the script webmasters use to display the articles...

 

[csmaster2005]

you're going to have to provide the username/pass/ip as a feed then parse it out since you're doing it remotely. Or you could also just provide the info that they're going to put on their site as a feed then you wouldnt need the whole connection issue.

 

[Barrucadu]

provide the info that they're going to put on their site as a feed

how the hell would I do that?

 

[csmaster2005]

You may want to research what a feed does..
basically you print all the info on a page, and then you write your script to goto your site and parse the info from that page.