pyrello

Hello, I am having trouble connecting to my database. I am very inexperienced with mysql and uniform server, so I'm sure that it is something simple. I am using the following code at the beginning of my page and I keep getting a message that says 'error connecting to database'. What should I do? <?php $dbconn = @mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'rootp'); if (!$dbconn) { die('Error connecting to DB!'); } if (! @mysql_select_db('blog') ) { die( '<p>Unable to locate the main ' . 'database at this time.</p>' ); } $query = "SELECT * FROM `categories` WHERE 1"; $result = @mysql_query($query); ?>