无法在php中创建新的MySQL数据库

I am having issues trying to create a new MySQL database in php,

my code is:

<?php
   $dbhost = 'localhost:3036';
   $dbuser = 'root';
   $dbpass = ‘somepassword’;

   $conn = new mysqli($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
   if(!$conn->connect_error )
   {
     die('Could not connect: %s' . $conn->connect_error);
   }
   echo "Connected successfully
";


   $sql = "CREATE DATABASE TUTORIALS2";

   if($conn->query($sql)===TRUE){

     echo "Created the database
";

   }

   else {
     echo "Failed to create the database".$conn->error;
   }



   //Close the database
   $conn->close();


 ?>

MySQL connects fine but it won't allow me to create a new database. Not a clue what I'm doing wrong here. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Second Edit: I somehow missed this, apologies.

You have a mistake here:

if(!$conn->connect_error )

should be

if($conn->connect_error )

see here http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.connect-error.php

Edit:

run this query SHOW GRANTS FOR 'root'@'localhost'; either from php or from PhpMyAdmin or similar and see if the user root has the privilege to create databases.

More here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/show-grants.html

First of all you need to enable error_reporting and second you have some bad quotes on this line $dbpass = ‘somepassword’;

replace like this

$dbpass = 'somepassword';