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I got tired of typing the connection code for MySQL on every PHP

I got tired of typing the connection code for MySQL on every PHP
page, so we built this simple little function.

<? 
// CONSTANTS 

define("DBSERVER", "www"); 
define("DBUSER", "LimitedUser"); 
define("DBPASS", "N0tAPa55w02d"); 

$SQL = ""; 
$LastError = ""; 


function DatabaseConnect() 
{ 
   global $LastError; 

    $LastError = ""; 

    //----------------------------- 
    // Connect to the mysql server. 
    //----------------------------- 
    $dbHandle = @mysql_connect(DBSERVER, DBUSER, DBPASS); 
    if ($dbHandle == false) { 
        $LastError = "Unable to connect to the database server: " . mysql_error(); 
        return false; 
    } 

    mysql_select_db("test"); 

    return true; 
} 
?>