From: Warren Young
Date: December 22 2007 5:45am
Subject: Re: MySQL++ Cannot Connect to Server
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Brian Dawn wrote:
> 
> But yes, my database login and name are the same thing, thats just
> how my web host works I guess.

Is there really a slash in these names, or is that some special notation 
handled by PHP?  Slashes in these names don't mean anything special to 
MySQL++ or the underlying C API.

> As for it getting stuck, it just hangs there for a while then I get
> an unhandled exception error (mysqlpp::ConnectionFailed to be
> specific).

Catch the exception and find out what its what() method says.  It 
usually tells you exactly what the problem is.