New to this Connecting to MySql database

[Anon]

New to this connecting to a MySQL (I'm in Microsoft rehab) from the internet. I have a php script on a site. I'm a bit new to php/mysql/unix so i'm going to elain what i have done.
I have installed this script
http://mxschools.com/cst-calendar-1.2/welcome.php3
now I have edited the info into the config file (that connects it to the data base I have created for this app). The hostname I am using is 'localhost' (because that's what the user is associated with in the grant tables) so is this right or how/what do I do to get users/web surfers to connect to and use this app.

Thansks for any help!

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Your web-users only access your PHP script, and your PHP script connects to your database.

the 'localhost' is the machine itself, you can only use that if you want to connect your PHP script to a databae server that is running on the same machine. Otherwise you'll have to change the hostname in PHP to the hostname of the machine that is running the MySQL. Change MySQL's access rights if neccecary. (read about the GRANT statement, forget all about changing the user tables manually)