bigguy

Hello, I am currently making a IM client like msn and yahoo for a program caled ares. I need it to look at a online MySQL database to see if the the username and password either exists and/or match eahc other. I have no idea how to do this becasue my Vb book only says how to connect to a "localhost" database. Please Help./ Thank You

Pizentios

where it says localhost, put in ether the host name, or the ip of the box that you want to connect to.

Examples:

mysql.myhost.com
215.789.294.2

Note both those won't go anywhere. You'll need to find out your values from teh place that is hosting your mysql db.

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Infinite Recursion

if you have access to the host, get the IP this way.

windows = ipconfig
linux = /sbin/ifconfig (if* not ip*)

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Rory

Except you might want to wrap / forward the port in some way (e.g. ssh) as exposing any interactive system directly to the web is baaad

Pizentios

Heh, not sure about mysql, but postgresql does have the ability to do it through ssl. Might want to look into that if you want something like Rory suggested.

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