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Posted by rogersimenson
rogersimenson
7,932 Points

I Page and MySQL

I have been taking the php course. The course was going great till I tried to upload my code onto ipage and boom it didn't work! I am having problems connecting to the database from php to the ipage server! Please tell me how or give me another server to connect to!

2 Answers

mbukhonko
mbukhonko
3,988 Points
mbukhonko
mbukhonko
3,988 Points

Did you copy your local database over to the web host's server? Did you set up a user to log in with in phpmyadmin? Have you tried to manually connect to the DB using MySQL Workbench as the videos suggest?

Can you, perhaps, be more specific?

rogersimenson
rogersimenson
7,932 Points

I made the data base using phpmyadmin, second I could not connect using the workbench

mbukhonko
mbukhonko
3,988 Points
mbukhonko
mbukhonko
3,988 Points

Then make a user for that database (in phpmyadmin) and check the 'MySQL Server' or similar link in your cPanel or other navigation for the proper way to connect to the DB server. Use that, make sure you're using the right address, port, username, and password. Or, follow this video for trying to establish a connection:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/using-php-with-mysql/connecting-php-to-mysql/getting-started-with-pdo-2