PHP and MySQL Connectivity

Here is a simple code to connect to MySQL from PHP assumnig MySQL.

<?php

$user="MySQL-Username";
$password="Password";

// Connect to MySQL
if ( !( $db = mysql_connect( "localhost","root", "" ) ) )
die( "Could not connect to database" );

// open networks database
if ( !mysql_select_db( "dbname") )
die( "Could not open the database" );

print("Connected to MySQL!!");

?>