[php] mySQL Connect?

[Tony]

Best way to go?

mysql_connect($mysql_host, $mysql_user, $mysql_pass) or die("<center><font size=+4><bold>mCMS - MySQL Error</body></font></center><br /><center>Unable to connect to your MySQL Connection Information</center>");
mysql_select_db($mysql_data) or die("<center><font size=+4><bold>mCMS - MySQL Error</body></font></center><br /><center>Unable to connect to database '" . $mysql_data . "'</center>"); 

[MentaL]

[s-p-n]

Not really.. This for a custom CMS? (got that from err-message)

I prefer the MySQL improved extension over the ancient one.

Font tags are deprecated..
Center tags are deprecated..
never seen a <bold> tag, are standards-compliant browsers missing something or are you?

Also you can benefit from using a framework and/or OOP for this.

That's all I've got to say.

Edit:
Whoops, forgot to mention that you shouldn't give information about the database, such as it's name or any field names, in error messages when publishing for production-use. So you should have a switch somewhere in your app for development / production environments, and build error handlers and exceptions around that idea.

[Tony]

Yes, this is from a custom cms.

[Ron]

<?php
$mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass, $db) or die('Error connecting to db');
?>

Just about all of the visual text tags you're using are deprecated. Use CSS.