Finally worked it out after trawling through lots of sites and this forum i just had to type the words localhost in where i was typing my ip address as the database server.
i mentioned this in my posts surprised no1 could solve the problem as i'm a newbie with this kinda thing. :cool:
yes i made the user name and gave full rights to the database is there a specific way im supposed to type this info in ive tried both with just the database username and with my account username_database username.
not sure where im going wrong...
Edit:
the only thing i can think of is the fact...
hi im trying to make a oscommerce site to see how it works but im stuck at the first hurdle ha!
i have made my database in the mysql section and am trying to connect to it.
There was a problem connecting to the database server. The following error had occured:Access denied for user...