[@feelie75 Member 16 years, 8 months ago]

This is the code that was making the call and getting the return false returned to it, thus resulting in this error:

if (!$bbdb->db_connect(‘SHOW TABLES;’)) {

$this->step_status[1] = ‘incomplete’;

$this->strings[1][] = __(‘There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.
Please check the settings, then try again.’);

return ‘error’;

}

db_connect was returning false when it detected $this->$dbhname was undef. So by removing the return false when that happened, the db_connect call then succeeded and all was happy .

To answer the other person, I’m hosting on localhost. I have an old PowerPC Mac running OS X 10.4.11 or something. It’s a spare computer; thought I’d stick a forum on it and learn some php.