title: Unable to connect Website to my phpmyadmin MySQL database
body: <p>Before I get into the question, I ran into a lot of questions, both on this website, as well as a bunch of others, however none of the solutions there helped, and so decided to post a question with my exact situation.</p>
  
  <p>So I am currently building a website, and am trying to connect it to a MySQL database I have created on phpmyadmin through hostgator. I am currently using 000webhost.com to host my webpages, as the computer I am working on does not have an ftp client, and am unable to install it as of now. As such, I decided to upload the files onto there temporarily as I build it, as they are dynamic webpages. Whenever I load up the page, however, I receive this error:</p>
  
  <p>Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/1045): ProxySQL Error: Access denied for user...</p>
  
  <p>where the "..." just lists my username and filepath to the file.</p>
  
  <p>this is my php code to connect to the database:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  define("DB_SERVER","localhost");
  define("DB_USERNAME","**user**");
  define("DB_PASSWORD","**password**");
  define("DB_DATABASE","**database_name**");
  if(!mysqli_connect(DB_SERVER,DB_USERNAME,DB_PASSWORD)){
      echo"Failure";
  }
  else{
      echo"Success!";
  }
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I double- and triple-checked the database username, password and name, however to no avail. Thanks a lot in advanced!</p>