how do I start a database connection?

[Anon]

I am installing php-nuke, and need to put the database instructions in the database.

I'm on spaceports, and don't have phpmyadmin on it, and I don't know how to install it yet.

could anyone give me the opening part of the code so I can insert the data?

Thanks,
-Sam

[Anon]

I used to host my phpnuke site on spaceports some time ago, before I changed to another provider. here are the settings:

$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuname = "your name for the spaceports cgi server, not for spaceports html server";
$dbpass = "your password for cgi server";
$dbname = "again the name for the cgi server";
$system = 0;
$prefix = "nuke";
$user_prefix = "nuke";
$dbtype = "MySQL";

consider, however, that spaceports is slow, that it prevents connecting to their cgi server from other servers by checking your referrer and that their hard disc space is small and if the server hard disc is full, it will take weeks until they insert a new one, while in the mean time everything that is written on harddisc (like the counter number in a txt file) will be set to zero, since the php and cgi scripts won't be able to write to harddisc, because it is full. that's why I changed

[Anon]

oh, yes, I forgot, about phpmyadmin. simply upload it to some directory, insert the same data as in the phpnuke config file into the phpmyadmin file and start phpmyadmin by starting the index file in your browser. there insert the nuke.sql file and tell phpmyadmin to upload the info to the database

[Anon]

Ok, thanks, I thought you had to configure phpmyadmin special, guess not.

Thats going to make the site work a whole lot easier now.

Thanks,
-Sam