[Kyosaur]

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Originally Posted by [NoV]LaZ He means that if he starts his server while his MySQL server is offline, it'll print that the connection was successful.

In that case, its likely he is using G-StyleZzZ's plugin, which can not be used this way. The connect function returns a connection handle, not true or false if the db has connected. Use mysql_ping to see if the db is active.