[DBan]

This should be posted in [HiC]TheKiller's tutorial, since you copied and pasted the code, which is extremely lazy and doesn't teach you anything. No wonder why you're having trouble. Anyways, make sure that all services in XAMP are started, and ensure that all the credentials (host, user, password, and database) are correct, it's very easy to make a small mistake that messes everything up with MySQL.