After all of my fear and I know that at least some of you can relate to this, I finally just went and ran my first tiny script that required a mysql database connection.
It all started…ok I will spare you my longwinded rattle which is super boring to anyone but me.
But I was avoiding it so hard that it had to be tackled.After all, there comes a time when you just can’t keep sidestepping mysql…much as you’d like to.Not if what you want to do is help people set up their own sites as like a job,you know?
I spent a good part of the day browsing Sourceforge looking for this and that.Which I can do for hours on end…I find it exciting,that is what a geek I am.
I’d downloaded a comments script that hadn’t stated outright that you needed mysql(which is good because I wouldn’t have downloaded it).
My host had given me my own mysql databse and db connections specs and I had run a connectivity test just 2 weeks ago but that was all.So I just followed the directions of the install and poof.I have comments.I have moderated comments,too with ip banning and a search form and the time and date and everything. wow.