Title: database error, please help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# database error, please help

 *  [xing7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xing7/)
 * (@xing7)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-please-help/)
 * someone help me please, i already follow the Installation: Famous 5-minute install
   in read me file. but after i upload using filezilla and try to open /wp-admin/
   install.php, the result as seen below :
 * WordPress
 * ERROR: %s’), $error); ?>
 * checked=”checked” />
 * ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’
 * ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear
   your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘);} switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // 
   in case people are directly linking to this display_header(); ?>
 * ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information
   below and you’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal
   publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>
 * error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill
   in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset($_POST[‘weblog_title’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘weblog_title’]) : ”; $admin_email = isset($_POST[‘admin_email’]) ? stripslashes(
   $_POST[‘admin_email’]) : ”; $public = isset($_POST[‘blog_public’]) ? (int) $_POST[‘
   blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if (empty($admin_email)){//
   TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __(‘you must provide an e-mail address.’));
   $error = true; } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form(
   __(‘that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [username@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-please-help/username@example.com?output_format=md)’));
   $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install(
   $weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?
   >
 *  admin
    ‘. $password .’ ‘; } echo ‘
 * ‘. $password_message .’
    ‘; ?>
 * how to delete my old database, i ever try upload to free web hosting (freeweb7.
   com) before. but i already try to delete the MySQL and close the account. but
   it’s still not working..
    please help me?
 * thanks before
 * xing

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-please-help/#post-1126943)
 * that error looks like php is not working or processing
    ask your host

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