Leopard Install... Can connect but not through PHP.

[Keil Miller Jr]

I installed the package Mysql 5.045 on leopard os 10.5.
Heres what I did so far:

Copied file /private/etc/php.ini.default to create file /private/etc/php.ini

Edited all instances of the following in /private/etc/php.ini:
mysql.default_socket =
--to--
mysql.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock
--and--
mysqli.default_socket =
--to--
mysqli.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock

I started mysql. I can connect to the database using the terminal or say the mysql admin or query browser. All beginning databases are there.

When I try to connect to it using a php page (is enabled), it does not work. The following is the code I tried to access one of my databases I recovered.

<?php

@ $db = new mysqli('localhost', 'keil', 'password', 'keilmiller');
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo '<p>Error: Could not connect to database.</p>';
exit;
}
else {
echo '<p>Connected to database</p>';
}

?>

Any help would be appreciated. I would hate to have to revert back to tiger for my job.

Macbook running the stock Apache and PHP build, and kinda running mysql 5.045.