Re: Can't connect to MySQL server

[achim brünenberg]

hi david,

i suppose your provider runs mysql on a server that is not accessible directly from the web so you have to configure it through the phpmyadmin-tool.

when you use phpmyadmin, you don't have direct access to the database but you send the data to the (accessible) http-server which relays the data to the database and forwards the output back to you.

i don't think there is any way to access the database with odbc, but perhaps you can do a trick: try to write a http-interface to your phpmyadmin-tool that generates http-request to be processed by the tool (and finally the database).

greets
Achim