Posted by mouac01 on 05/17/07 07:29

I'm not sure if this is possible. I would like to have a PHP app on
the Internet connect and write to a local database (Intranet). For
example, users would go to a web site http://www.internet.com to run
the app. The app requires an internet connection and is outside of
the user's network. The app would have the option to either store
data locally or on the Internet. I would like to give users the
option to store data locally because some may have privacy/security
concerns if the data is stored on the Internet or kept/maintained by
another company.

Would the connection string below work from the Internet to connect to
the user's local database? I don't have my web hosting service up yet
so I can't test. Thanks...

<?php
$server='localhost' //or whatever the client db server name is
$c=new mysqli($server,'user','passwd','db');
?>

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