How to connect AlterVista's database to Visual Basic

Hi,

We are a project team and we are currently doing a project for a local company, the company wants to have a program that can let them do search and add records whose kinda functions. We have put our database in altervista's phpmyadmin, but we are having trouble connect it to Visual Basic.

In our previous projects, we did example like this

Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient

Public Class ClassCustomer
' these module variables are internal to object
Dim mDatasetCustomer As New DataSet
Dim mstrQuery As String
Dim mdbDataAdapter As New SqlDataAdapter
Dim mdbConn As SqlConnection
Dim mstrConnection As String = "workstation id=COMPUTER;packet size=4096;data source=missql.mccombs.utexas.edu;integrated security=False;initial catalog=mis333k_msbcn381;user id=msbcn381;password=Meee@sm123"
' define a public read only property for the outside world to access the dataset filled by this class
Public ReadOnly Property CustDataset() As DataSet
Get
' return dataset to user
Return mDatasetCustomer
End Get

End Property

The red part is where we connect to our school's server. PS: we don't have any experiences to connect to a third party database server.


Can Alter Vista team help us on this issue.

Thank you.

You cannot connect to your AlterVista database from the internet, only the PHP scripts on your webspace can use the MySQL database.

When I using PHP to connect the AlterVista's database, what should I put in the servername, username and password? I know in localhost is like $account=mysql_connects("localhost", "root", "password") Can you give me an example?

http://en.altervista.org/wiki/index....ction_settings