On Sunday 09 February 2003 07:59, Paul wrote: > I'm opening a socket to the remote machine and using post to send the data. > But please enlighten me, what is the usual method of accessing a remote > database?
One usually use stuff like mysql_connect() and friends to connect to databases. If you're using 'post' (as in HTTP POST) then aren't you in fact accessing a webserver which returns data from a database as opposed to accessing the database directly? -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* If it heals good, say it. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php