Posted by gjb on 02/25/06 16:30

Ah, again apologies for my ignorance, I wasn't aware there was a
differance...!

the admin thing was just a test login, but couldn't get it to work. I've
spotted a mysql newsgroup which I will post in...

Many thanks for the help.

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote in message
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> "gjb" <Kookookaachoo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> 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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