Hi everyone.

This might sound like a stupid question to those of you who know, but anyhow...

Is is possible to connect to a database on a foreign site?

At present, from what i see, all the references in the connection are to "localhost" e.g. mysql_connect("localhost", "xxxxx", "yyyyy") so, if it is possible, what would i replace localhost with?

Looking forward to your answers.

It is very possible however there are some implications. If the foreign host does not allow outside connections to mysql you can not. If the foriegn host goes down, so does your data.

Other than that just replace the localhost with the ip or url of the host you want to connect to.