Posted by Peter van Schie on 04/01/06 23:40

esingley@gmail.com wrote:

> So, what's the best way to specify a different host to mysql_connect()
> on dev and production. Yes, I could manually edit the variable
> everything I FTP, but I'd rather not.
>
> Should I use a global variable in a separate include file? Other
> options?

I usually use an include file in which I define this type of settings.
In case of the database host it's usually localhost though, unless you
run the database server on a seperate server.

HTH.
Peter.

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