[Phpmyadmin-devel] question (newbie to www.phpmyadmin.net)

[Marc Delisle]

Paul Westmoreland a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm sorry to post such a basic question, but I hope one of you can help 
> me with something.
> 
> I have created a demo database at www.phpmyadmin.net 
> <http://www.phpmyadmin.net>. It has a database > table > records etc and 
> everything looks good on that end. I am running a browser .pl script to 
> read the database, from a different web server/different url.
> 
> In my script, I am trying to log into the database to read it, and I 
> keep getting "Unknown MySQL server host" - but to me it looks like it 
> should go through.
> 
> The database host is:
> my [dollar sign]dbhost = 'http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/trunk/index.php';
> 
> The database is:
> my [dollar sign]dbname = '[my_database_name]';
> 
> The login is:
> $dblogin= 'root';
> 
> Pass is:
> my $dbpass = ''; (i leave this empty)
> 
> To me it looks like it should work, but it isn't and I keep getting the 
> error.
> 
> Can someone help me figure out what's wrong? If for some reason, the 
> demo site doesn't let me run scripts from an outside server to query a 
> demo db, then is there a place on the demo site where I can run the .pl 
> script against the db?
> 
> Thanks!

I don't think that it's the intention of the demo web site to give you 
access, apart from the phpMyAdmin interface.

Marc Delisle