MYSQL Servername issue?

[auztrax1]

Long short story, I am having issues with $servername = "localhost"; looks like it is not localhost or iam missing something, i tried username@x10....

 

[auztrax1]

reference: $conn = new PDO("mysql:host=$servername;dbname=$dbname", $username, $password);

 

[bdistler]

looks like it is not localhost or iam missing something

what is the issue (error) ??
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the following settings should be used:

Host/Server Name - [ localhost ]

Port - [ 3306 ] (not necessary)

Username --> Your cPanel username followed by an underscore and the MySQL username you configured in cPanel

Password --> The password that you used when creating the MySQL user

Database --> Your cPanel username followed by an underscore and the name of the database that you created in cPanel

NOTE: Free hosting accounts do not have remote MySQL access.