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I see there are LOTS of MyPHP forums. My guess is you'd get a faster
response there, Dick, provided the participants aren't all snide
brainiacs who tromp on newbies.
> Chris
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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 7:32 AM
To: Sean Wheller
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Subject: Re: Somebody draw me a picture, please
Sean Wheller wrote:
> On Friday 03 March 2006 16:59, Dick Margulis wrote:
>> Sure they can be created manually from a shell...BY SOMEONE WHO
ALREADY
>> KNOWS HOW.
>>
>> I'm sorry if I appear ungrateful, but you wouldn't write that
sentence
>> in end user documentation, would you? Would you???
>
> Dick,
>
> Have you checked if the ISP has installed CPanel
>
> Usually something like http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel
> will bring you a login
>
> From CPanel you usually have access to phpMyAdmin or another
web-based
> interface.
>
> From there you can create the database and then a user which you will
need to
> associate with the database as having various privileges.
The database exists (that part was easy--I'm just trying to figure out
how to gain access to it so I can add the tables); I know the username
and password. I just don't know which of the many kinds of users listed
in the phpMyAdmin configuration file that username and password apply
to.
>
> Assuming perl your connection strings would look like this:
>
> $dbh =
DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database_name:localhost","user_name","<PASSWORD
> HERE>");
>
> Assuming PHP
>
> $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "user_name", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or
die ('I
> cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
> mysql_select_db ("database_name");
>
> Again, as per my other message, you need admin access. Usually this
is
> provided via CPanel for hosting environments that usually run virtual
> servers.
>
I admit confusion as to whether or not I have admin access to the
database. It's a shared database server, and the database name I've been
assigned is unique to me. I have a login and password on it. So far,
that's all I know.
Now I'm going to go looking for Fantastico, per Char's suggestion, and
report back.
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