Date: 11/12/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web

Hello All. Just a short introduction.

I'm Sam, 17 years of age from England. I'm currently a student, and am soon to leave for university to study computer gsmes development, which should be fun.I've been teaching myself php along with MySQL for about a week now, and all has been pretty good so far. It's surprising how simple php really is.

Now thats over with, I have a small problem. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes:

Does anybody have any experience making websites hosted by the free lycos tripod service? If so, how do you get php to communicate with MySQL in it? I've created a site that works fine on the test server I've created, but as soon as I upload it to tripod, it just stops working. The lycos help page said it would automatically connect to and select your database at the beginning of the script, so I figured you just skip all the mysql_connect() stuff and start straight away with the queries, however it still doesnt work. I know for a fact my query is fine, as I copied and pasted it straight into the mysql client and it all worked beautifully.

If all else fails, could you recommend a good, preferably free php and MySQL webhost?

Thankyou Greatly

Sam

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