RE: Help connection to mysql database

On: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 At: 6:04 PM, zilore mumba Wrote:

>> $db ="IP address"; # should the IP address be here or I just>> put MySQL? ########################

This should be the actual name of the database. Naturally I don't know what your database is named, so I cannot tell you what it should be. But it's unlikely that your database is named to look like an IP address.

>> ## user hostname : This should be "localhost" but it can be diffrent too>> $host="localhost";  # is this ok or should I put the IP address>> here? ######################## 

If mysql is running on the same machine as your perl script, then this may be left as localhost. If, however, it is running somewhere else, then a machine name or IP address will need to be supplied. Perl needs to know where to send the request. If it isn't on the local machine (localhost) then it will need to send the request to another machine, so you'll telling it where.

-- 
Henry

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