Hi guys. I'm working through examples from a book on php/mysql development. I'm working on a linux/apache environment.

I've set up a database and a user. I attempt to connect with this line of code:

$db_server = mysql_connect($db_hostname, $db_username, $db_password);

I get this error:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'www-data'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in /var/www/hosts/dj/connect.php on line 3 unable to connect to database: Access denied for user 'www-data'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I can only guess what is happening here: I think www-data is a username for apache. Upon the database connection, the credentials being passed in to mysql are not those of my database user, but rather apache's own credentials. Is that what is happening here?

How do I pass in the credentials I've defined for my user ?