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PHP

Jesse Schoonveld
Jesse Schoonveld
2,943 Points
Posted by Jesse Schoonveld
Jesse Schoonveld
2,943 Points

How do i connect with an online database? As opposed to a local one.

So i recently started learning PHP and i have a local MYSQL database wich i can access and use with the PDO function.

But i have an online server i can use wich has access to online MYSQL databases and i would like to make and access those. However i am not sure how i should make this PDO function work. I made something similar to this: 

try {
$pdo = new PDO('mysql:shareddb1b.hosting.stackcp.net;dbname=mydatabase', my username, my password);
}
catch (PDOException $e){
    die($e->getMessage());
}

I'm probably missing something completely obvious, i've searched alot of the answer and 99% of examples are people using host=localthost