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we are trying to connect to our local mysql database using PHP. We left out the password on purpose but is it correct. However, this is not working, we keep getting following error message: Warning: mysqli_connect() expects parameter 5 to be long, string given in.
It is referring to line 7 which would be $conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $port, $uname, $pword, $dbname);
<?php
$servername = "Mysql#127.0.0.1";
$port = "3306";
$uname = "root#localhost";
$pword = "1234";
$dbname = "database";
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $port, $uname, $pword, $dbname);
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
?>
Our confiq.php file
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root#localhost');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'Mysql#127.0.0.1');
define('port', '3306');
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Answer 1

You have the args in the wrong order in the constructor
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $port, $uname, $pword, $dbname);
should be
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $uname, $pword, $dbname, $port );
It looks however like the info in the config file is incorrect -
define('DB_HOST', 'Mysql#127.0.0.1');
would, I suspect, actually be
define('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1');
though perhaps not!
so then, using the info from your config file, the connection would be:
$conn = mysqli_connect( DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME, port );