PHP w/ MySQL

apjake · - Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Cleona

Okay, wow, where to start... I bought a script off of someone. It needs MySQL to run, so I have MySQL, and the green light is on :wink: But I still haven't a clue what I'm doing. I don't know how to make a new database, or WHERE to put it. Alls I know is here's the part of the php file for MySQL:

Moxxnixx · - Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226 Location: Florida

Welcome apjake.

To start off,
1. "Database Password" and "Database Username" is what your script needs to communicate with mysql.
These are located in the my.ini file that you made when installing mysql.

2. "Database Name" is the database that is created in mysql that holds the info that your script generates.
If you don't know how to create a database, I would suggest installing phpMyAdmin. There is an excellent
tutorial for it here: http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1071

3. Usually the "Localhost" part can be left as-is.

I hope this helps a little.