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Posted by Jeremy Mapalad
Jeremy Mapalad
1,316 Points

Accessing another database FROM another server through wpdb.

Hello, I'm kinda new here. So here's my situation:

I have a woocommerce website, but with a twist, I have to get the price (via SKU) from another database, from another server, which I don't have access to. (But they have already whitelisted my static IP)

How can I connect to their database without ruining my connection to my own database?

So here's what I tried. (I'm trying to connect to the database first.) I'll replace the real credentials. Remote = another database from another server

global $wpdb;
$newdb = new wpdb('remote_db_username', 'remote_db_pass', 'remote_dbname', '10.41.1.47');

if ( $newdb->check_connection() ) {
    echo "Hey, we connected, alright!";
}
else {
    echo "Hey... not connected....... now what?!";
}

    //Going back to my own DB
global $wpdb;
$newdb = new wpdb('my_dbuser', 'my_db_pass', 'my_dbname', 'localhost');

Please help me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks :)

1 Answer

Jeremy Mapalad
Jeremy Mapalad
1,316 Points
Jeremy Mapalad
Jeremy Mapalad
1,316 Points

I have also tried adding the port which is 3306 on 10.41.1.47:3306