Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/24/06 08:35

"Neil" <nhmiller@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1140732527.747967.121570@t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> Our hosting company's server went down a few days ago. After they fixed
> it, our PHP Page and Database are not interfacing. They are not
> believing me that I have done nothing on my end in several months with
> uploading new files or doing anything with the database, insisting I
> have to fix this myself. I am somewhat adept at html, but had a friend
> get me started on the database -- then I took over, entering new data,
> revising fields, but know nothing of what is done before that.
>
> I will be happy to attach to an email to you the php file and a screen
> shot of the database summary page (that appears after using PHPMyAdmin
> to enter the database).
> To protect your email address, you can go to our website:
>
> carolwilsongallery.com
>
> and send an email on this subject. I'll respond with the attachments.
> And I promise to post the solution here after we are done.
>
> I'm quite sure the solution is very simple, and an expert would be able
> to tell me exactly what to do in a few minutes.
>
> Thanking you in advance.
>

if the db got corrupted, it would be a task to go through all the queries in
the PHP source code to recreate the tables from scratch, but it could be
done.

Did they do a tape restore of the database, or was it completely wiped?

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