How do I connect to an external database

[Anon]

Just out of interest I was wondering if it is possible to connect to mysql externally. I want to put some of my php scripts on one server, and call the info from mysql on another server.

I use a dbinfo.inc.php file to connect to my database. This file is called at the top of each .php page using thwe include tag. Inside this file I specify the following

<?
$username="user";
$password="pass";
$database="database name";
?>

What do I need to add to my script.

[Anon]

when you are making your DB connection you state the Servername, Username and password like this:

$db = mysql_connect("servername", "username", "password");

the password may not be required.

HTH 🙂