How to create user-defined board size?

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I am having problems with creating a Connect-4 game where the user defines the height and width of the board.

Thus far, I have coded the ability for a user to input the board dimensions and then display the board.

I have also created a two dimensional array using pointers to keep track of the various positions status.

My problem is that while I can get the board to display without reference to the pointer-based 2D array, I do not know how to pass the values from the array to the function that displays the board.

My code is as follows:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

//This function draws the board given parameters.
void drawBoard(int height, int width, int &board)
{
    for (int i=0; i < height; i++)
    {
        const char* a = "┌";
        const char* b = "─";
        const char* c = "┐";
        const char* d = "│";
        const char* e = "└";
        const char* f = "┘";


        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {
            cout << a << b << c;
        }
        cout << "\n";
        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {

            cout << d << board[i][j]<< " " <<d;
        }
        cout << "\n";
        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {

            cout << e << b<<f;
        }
        cout << "\n";
    }
}

int main()
{
    //This allows player to create board size.
    int height, width;
    cout << "Please enter the height of the desired board: \n";
    cin >> height;
    cout << "Please enter the width of the desired board: \n";
    cin >> width;

    int **p_p_board;
    p_p_board = new int* [height];

    for ( int i = 0; i< height; i++)
    {
        p_p_board [i] = new int [width];
    }

    for ( int i = 0; i < height; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {
            p_p_board [i][j] = 0;
        }
    }

    drawBoard(height, width, &*p_p_board);

}

The errors I get are:
In function 'void drawBoard (int, int, int&)':
error: invalid types 'int[int]' for array subscript.
In function int main ()
error: invalid initialization of non-const reference of type 'int&' from a temporary of type 'int**'

How can I pass the pointer to pointer array to the drawBoard function.

There are no problems with the code below, but then I cannot track moves...

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

//This function draws the board given parameters.
void drawBoard(int height, int width)
{
    for (int i=0; i < height; i++)
    {
        const char* a = "┌";
        const char* b = "─";
        const char* c = "┐";
        const char* d = "│";
        const char* e = "└";
        const char* f = "┘";


        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {
            cout << a << b << c;
        }
        cout << "\n";
        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {

            cout << d << "  " <<d;
        }
        cout << "\n";
        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {

            cout << e << b<<f;
        }
        cout << "\n";
    }
}

int main()
{
    //This allows player to create board size.
    int height, width;
    cout << "Please enter the height of the desired board: \n";
    cin >> height;
    cout << "Please enter the width of the desired board: \n";
    cin >> width;

    int **p_p_board;
    p_p_board = new int* [height];

    for ( int i = 0; i< height; i++)
    {
        p_p_board [i] = new int [width];
    }

    for ( int i = 0; i < height; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; j < width; j++)
        {
            p_p_board [i][j] = 0;
        }
    }

    drawBoard(height, width);

}