PDO connect DB Failed (Ubuntu 12.0.4 LAMP)

Hi. I am trying to connect to a database (i have setup using phpmyadmin) thru a script (i.e.config script) i have placed in the “home/user" directory whereas the PHP GET script is placed in the “var/www" directory. When i run the GET script that attempt to connect to the database via config script, connection did not work and no error being echo. I know my GET script has successfully link to config script because i received the echo “config". My scripts have been tried out successfully in other web servers.

Do i need to install PDO or ? Badly need advices on this.

–config script— <?php

$db_host = “localhost”; $db_name =“xxxxxxxxx"; $username = “xxxxxxxxx"; $password = “xxxxxxxxxxxxx";

$dsn = “mysql:host=$db_host;dbname=$db_name;charset=utf8”; $opt = array( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION, PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC ); echo "config”; //i can see this echo from the browser try { $dbh = new PDO($dsn,$username,$password, $opt); echo $dbh; //cannot see this echo } catch (PDOException $e) { echo 'Connection failed: ’ . $e->getMessage(); }

// create LM object, pass in PDO connection $lm = new lazy_mofo($dbh); echo $lm; ?>