Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on 02/25/06 16:26

"gjb" <Kookookaachoo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:CkZLf.26271$wl.7873@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if this sounds dumb but I'm very new to this.
>
> I'm just trying to create a simple login page (
> http://aarkenuk.co.uk/barnesg/login.php) In my MySQL databases I have the
> correct database selected, but it's the users I'm struggling with. You get
> like a front end with my hosting space (CpanelX) and in there I've created
> user "admin" password "admin" but I cannot seem to login.
>


This is a Microsoft SQL Server group, not MySQL group so you're probably not
going to find as much help here as you'd ilke.


However, I would say taht you probably don't want an admin being able to
access your database from a webpage simply for security reasons.


> This is what I see in the front end..
>
> Users in test
> barnes_admin (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)
>
> Connection Strings
> Perl $dbh =
> DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:barnes_test:localhost","barnes_admin","<PASSWORD
> HERE>");
> PHP $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "barnes_admin", "<PASSWORD
> HERE>") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' .
> mysql_error());
> mysql_select_db ("barnes_test");
>
>
>
> Is there anything more I need to do? Do you login with barnes_admin or
just
> admin? (I've tried both) and why does it created barnes_admin and not just
> admin? Also what are the connection strings for? do I need to do anything
> with these?
>
> Thanks very much in advance for any advice..
>
> Gary
>
>
>

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