Newbie needs help with Advanced Poll DB

Hey everyone, new to the forum here. I just got my website from godaddy and I'm trying to setup a poll for my blog site. I am familar with HTML and a little bit of PHP, but have no idea about database stuff. I created a database thru the godaddy control panel, but don't know what to do.

I've created a poll using advanced poll in a php file, but I'm getting an error when it loads.

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/content/...............db/include/class_mysql.php on line 32

Any suggestions on what it could be? I've read up on the forums, but like I said, I know really nothing about database stuff.