Jason,
An FYI
I did contact my host and come to find out that the connection info was not the issue. What was the issue was my PW had $ in it and that confused the processor as it began looking for a php variable. Two ways to correct. One, surround the php in single quotes instead of double quotes. Two, change the PW. I chose the latter as I don't want to have to always modify the php that ecart is writing.
Dave