Hello people, I'm sorry for this question but I'm getting crazy trying to write my first php clash, it is supposed to connect me to server and to a database but I'm always getting this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/classTest/test.php on line 9

thanks in advance, here is the code:

<?php
// include 'DBConnect.php';

class DBConnect
{

function connection($hostname = "localhost", $myname = "root", $pass = ''){

         mysql_connect(&hostname, &myname, &pass) or die("Could not connect!"); //Connect to mysql
         }

function choose($dbnam){
         mysql_select_db(&dbnam) or die("Couldn't find database!"); //fnd specific db
         }

}


 $a = new DBConnect();


$connect = $a->connection("localhost", "root");

$a->choose('mydb');

 ?>