Thanks for the suggestion. Had to reinstall php and mysql library to fix after someone had run subversion on it.
cheers

Hi all
My receptionists suddenly receive this error when trying to load phone book,
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /var/www/html/fop2/lib/dblib.php on line 4
I've checked my database is in place and readable by following other posts here,
php -v
PHP 4.3.9 (cgi) (built: Nov 30 2010 03:45:20)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

mysql -u root fop2 -e "desc visual_phonebook"
+-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| firstname | varchar(50) | YES | | NULL | |
| lastname | varchar(50) | YES | | NULL | |
| company | varchar(100) | YES | | NULL | |
| phone1 | varchar(25) | YES | | NULL | |
| phone2 | varchar(25) | YES | | NULL | |
| picture | varchar(100) | YES | | NULL | |
+-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+

Is there anything else I can check ?
cheers
nigel