I am writing a simple php / msql code for a leaderboard for a game I wrote. I am not able to get my php to connect to my database. Here is my comon.php code, am I not listing the URL right? :

<?php

$dbName = 'markgr7_score';
$secretKey = "wwi_1918~";

function dbConnect()
{
global $dbName;
global $secretKey;

$link = mysql_connect('secure39.webhostinghub.com', 'markgr7_gamer', 'wwi_1918~');

if(!$link)
{
fail("Couldn´t connect to database server");
}

if(!@mysql_select_db($dbName))
{
fail("Couldn´t find database $dbName");
}

return $link;
}

function safe($variable)
{
$variable = addslashes(trim($variable));
return $variable;
}

function fail($errorMsg)
{
print $errorMsg;
exit;
}

?>