Re: [PHP-DB] connecting to a remote db? From: Jason Wong (phplist <email protected>)
Date: 06/13/02

On Thursday 13 June 2002 14:23, Chris Payne wrote:
> Hi there everyone,
>
> I have a secure server and another separate servr, both use PHP and
> MySQL – however, I need to connect to a db off of the secure server, how
> can I do this? I normally use localhost if it’s on the same machine,
> but how can I connect the DB to a DB on my other machine as I cannot use
> this particular DB on my secure server?

Assuming you have the necessary access rights to the DB on the secure server
then it just a simple matter of replacing 'localhost' with
'hostname.of.secureserver'. And of course if the username and password are
different replace those as well. 

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