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PHP Integrating PHP with Databases Databases and PHP Getting to Know the Project

Posted by Hector F.
Hector F.
27,464 Points

What do I have to do if I want to follow this online on my current hosting?

I want to work online. Where do I upload the database and how?

Please help!

Ashu Mehra
Ashu Mehra
222 Points

You can do this simply by creating the database in phpmyadmin in your hosting control panel.

1 Answer

Mike Henry
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Mike Henry
Courses Plus Student 5,373 Points
Mike Henry
Mike Henry
Courses Plus Student 5,373 Points

If by "online" you mean on your local machine, for me it was just use the downloads --> projects files and put them in my "C:\wamp64\www" directory in a project folder. I so mine is here "C:\wamp64\www\PHP_TeamTreeHouse". Then I just followed along with the videos and when I want to view the page I used WAMP --> localhost and clicked on the project. (http://localhost:1025/PHP_TeamTreeHouse/). If you do not have WAMP installed view the https://teamtreehouse.com/library/windows-local-php-dev-environment course. If you are on a Mac view the https://teamtreehouse.com/library/mac-local-php-dev-environment course.

If by "online" you mean on a hosted service like Heroku you will need to change the database from sqlite to something like mysql. For me this was changing the connection.php file from $db = new PDO("sqlite:".DIR."/database.db"); to $db = new PDO('mysql:host=127.0.0.1;port=3306;dbname=tth_php_database', 'root', ''); I think I also had to change the RANDOM() to RAND().