Hi,

I am trying to figure out what information it is that I need to put in this file regarding my 'DSN'.

I have the book 'PHP MySQL Website Programming', and it makes reference to a line that should be changed in my config.php file.

The book states that the following line should be changed:
 define("DSN", "mysql://root:@localhost/wrox");

The code downloaded from Wrox has different information:
 define("DSN", "mysql://admin:l3tm3in@localhost/wrox");

What is am trying to figure out is what each value represents.

I am running Windows 2000 and I have Apache(HTTP Server Version 1.3), PHP(latest version) and MySQL(latest version) installed and operational.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

The above is just a URL, like any other URL you might be familiar with.

The full spec of a URL says that you can specify a username and password in the URL itself for accessing password-protected material. For HTTP, this covers sites where Apache is set up to use basic authentication with .htaccess files.

Simply stated, the format goes:

<protocol>://[<username>:<password>@]<host>[<path>]

The square brackets surround optional items.

Lemme break down this one for you:

define("DSN", "mysql://admin:l3tm3in@localhost/wrox");
<protocol> = mysql
<username> = admin
<password> = l3tm3in
<host> = localhost
<path> = /wrox



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

I should've been more explicit: The DSN is a URL-esque identifier, it's not necessarily a URL.

For more info on the formats supported, with examples, read the manual at:
  http://pear.php.net/manual/en/packag....intro-dsn.php


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Hi,

Thank you for your help.

Paul