Missing link?

[renobailey]

I have large website of many folders of HTML pages, and one folder of PHP stuff (that also contains the Connections folder containing the Connections file). This works fine on the testing server.

I've now got the populated database on the hosting server, as well as the folder containing the PHP elements. The links are supposed to run queries and display data, but nothing happens. No error messages; no nothing.

It occurs to me that perhaps the Connections file (with the hostname, database name, etc.) might need to be in a more prominent place. What activates the Connections file, anyway? Should I move this code inside a PHP file that is called by a link?

(Mother couldn't afford to send me to PHP school. :bemused🙂 I'd call the hosting service but their support dept. seems to be down for awhile.

Thoughts?

[dalecosp]

What does your connections file look like?

How different is the "hosting server" environment from the "testing server" environment? Many hosting companies are well-known by the fact they run ancient implementations of both PHP and SQL services ...

[renobailey]

I finally got their support team. It was not a tech problem at all. A user hostname/password mixup in the connections file. I used the PHPAdmin hn/pw ones instead of the MySql ones. Sorry to have hijacked your thought processes. But thanks.