How to sync my iPhone 5 with my iTunes?

I've been having problems with my phone and iTunes. For some reason when I plug my phone into my laptop, my phone doesn't show up on my iTunes. It charges but nothing else. I've tried turning my phone off while still plugged in, uninstalling iTunes and re downloading it. Nothing seems to be working!

Make sure that your itunes is the latest available. My old iphone quit synching when I updated the ios because the itunes wasn't new enough. But when I tried to download the latest i found that my old laptop software wouldn't accept it. Had to buy new software for the Macbook and then update the itunes.