Hi everyone,
I refer to my message in my other post some time ago:
"Currently I am playing with accessing database of a remote database server from another website - so far things are in progress! (It was a complicated process in the beginning - I will share my experience sometime when my time is more flexible. Reference in book: Page 351, Tips item #2.)"
Page 351, Tips item #2 in Larry's book says:
The localhost value is used as the hose name when both the PHP script and the MySQL database reside on the same computer. You can use PHP to connect to a MySQL database running on a remot