how to connect to database on another server

Question

Could I have my php scripts on server A and connect to the MySQL database on server B?

If yes, how it would be done? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Have a look here:

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php

You can either pass in the server hostname as an argument, or configure in php.ini.

Answer 2

its simple all thise above techniques are quite complicated

suppose you have database on server B and website on server A(say it has IP 192.234.12.1)

on cpanel whitelist the IP of server B

and create a new user having sufficient privileges in database (say this user is test)

then create this user as test@192.234.12.1