PHP/MySQL

[Steve09]

I'm hopefully going to be doing a project in PHP/MySQL and as I've not used these 2 before, I've been having a read on the Internet and I've installed WAMP which I've been playing around with and learning the basics.

I know it's along way off (But it'll go quick) but how would I go about putting my .php pages and my database online?

At the moment I'm just running off my localhost and using PHPMyAdmin, but on my University login, I have a webspace folder which I just drop files into and then navigate to my homepage.

Would it simply be a case of dropping my .php files in there and exporting my database via PHPMyAdmin (What would I export it as?) and then dropping that in there?

Also, when connecting to the DB in my .php files, instead of having...

mysql_connect("localhost","root","password");

When it's in my webspace folder, instead of localhost, what would I put there? and as for root and the password I set for the DB, that would be the same right?

Thanks

 

[LiE]

It depends entirely what your University hosting provides. If you have MySQL installed, there will probably be PHPMyAdmin as well, so it's very much like what you have on the WAMP server. localhost will likely stay the same and user/password would be set to the user you create.