Cannot connect to phpMyAdmin database using MAMP Server

Question

I am trying to create a login system on my website but I can't connect the database to my server (Error: localhost is currently unable to handle this request. HTP ERROR 500). I am using MAMP server.

This is my code:

<?php

$host="localhost:3306";
$user="root";
$pass="root";

$db_name="MyDatabase";

mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Error in connecting to the mysql server!");
mysql_select_db($db_name) or die("Error in selecting the database!");

?>

Thanks.

Answer 1

Replace your last 2 lines by these:

$link = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Error in connecting to the mysql server!");
mysqli_select_db($link, $db_name) or die("Error in selecting the database!");