Re: Crash course

Simon Schick wrote:

Just try to connect to your mysqlserver using a simple php script first.

Actually my next step was to try phpMyAdmin ;) Having created a new user with the correct rights it just worked out of the box. I was simply trying to use 'root' just to get going, but it seems that is blocked somewhere and will only work internally. That is I could not log into phpMyAdmin using 'root' ... joomla is using mysqli but as yet is obviously not strict compliant as http://gc.lsces.org.uk/ will demonstrate ... that is if I've not found where to patch joomla since I don't want to switch E_STRICT off just for that. If I do anything with joomla it will be replacing mysql, but to be honest I'll probably just move most of the sites to something *I* can work with :) I've already sorted the E_STRICT problem with my own stuff. I just need to get them running for now! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk