I recently purchased the book "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson.

It comes with PHP 5, MySQL 4.1 and 5-beta, and Apache 1.3... I was able to get Apache up and running with PHP...

This is where the problem comes in, however. MySQL will not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(I am running an HP Pavilion a350n and Windows XP with SP2)...

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When I run one of the PHP scripts and it tries to connect to MySQL I get the error message:

Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [function.mysqli]: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) in c:\program files\apache group\Apache\htdocs\28\db_fns.php on line 5

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