Re: Somebody draw me a picture, please

[Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Sean Wheller wrote:
> On Friday 03 March 2006 16:59, Dick Margulis wrote:
>> Sure they can be created manually from a shell...BY SOMEONE WHO ALREADY
>> KNOWS HOW.
>>
>> I'm sorry if I appear ungrateful, but you wouldn't write that sentence
>> in end user documentation, would you? Would you???
>
> Dick,
>
> Have you checked if the ISP has installed CPanel
>
> Usually something like http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel
> will bring you a login
>
> From CPanel you usually have access to phpMyAdmin or another web-based
> interface.
>
> From there you can create the database and then a user which you will 
need to
> associate with the database as having various privileges.

The database exists (that part was easy--I'm just trying to figure out 
how to gain access to it so I can add the tables); I know the username 
and password. I just don't know which of the many kinds of users listed 
in the phpMyAdmin configuration file that username and password apply to.

>
> Assuming perl your connection strings would look like this:
>
> $dbh = 
DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database_name:localhost","user_name","<PASSWORD
> HERE>");
>
> Assuming PHP
>
>  $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "user_name", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or 
die ('I
> cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
> mysql_select_db ("database_name");
>
> Again, as per my other message, you need admin access. Usually this is
> provided via CPanel for hosting environments that usually run virtual
> servers.
>

I admit confusion as to whether or not I have admin access to the 
database. It's a shared database server, and the database name I've been 
assigned is unique to me. I have a login and password on it. So far, 
that's all I know.


Now I'm going to go looking for Fantastico, per Char's suggestion, and 
report back.

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