Navaldesign thanks once again and sorry to bug you yet once more. I saved the page by changing the setting in page properties, as suggested by you, so it executed but this time it gave a syntax error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/tuwipwa/public_html/test5.php on line 13

I used the same code as I had used earlier and removed a blank line so if you refer to my earlier code the error will be in line 14.

The echo statements didn't print, probably because of the syntax error.

Well I understand, I have not written any queries so the page won't do anything else besides printing the echo statements but before going further I wanted to check the connection because normally this is the biggest issue I generally have but in BlueVoda it appears much simpler than in many other web hosting packages.

Please let me know what is causing the syntax error.

Thanks
Skipper