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Creating a table in a MySQL database

<?php //connect to your MySQL server using your servername , username //and password $conn = mysql_connect("localhost" , "username" , "password"); //if you cannot connect display an error message and exit if ($conn == false) { echo mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()."<BR>"; exit; } //create a table called contact , this will contain 2 fields . //fullname to store a name and email to store an email address $query = "create table contact" . "(fullname varchar(255), email varchar(255))"; //store this in $result variable $result = mysql_db_query ("mydb", $query); //if successful display this message if ($result) echo "Table 'mydb' was successfully created!"; //if unsuuccessful display the error message else echo mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()."<BR>"; mysql_close (); ?>