Can't connect to MySQL database - PHP - php

Question

Quick question here, I'm new to web hosting and I'm just having a muck around to see what's what. I've created the following PHP document and hosted it on my free 000webhost domain:
<?php
$mysql_host = "mysqlXX.000webhost.com";
$mysql_database = "***********_people";
$mysql_user = "*************_admin";
$mysql_password = "******************";
// Create connection
$con=mysqli_connect($mysql_host,$mysql_database,$mysql_user,$mysql_password);
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con))
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
?>
I have set up (hopefully correctly) a small table in my database with 3 fields:
ID - No Null, auto-increment, integer, primary
First Name - VarChar, Length 20
Last Name - VarChar, Length 20
And entered data for each one.
When I open the file from my control panel, I get the following error:
Warning: mysqli_connect() [function.mysqli-connect]: (28000/1045):
Access denied for user 'a4935911_people'#'10.1.1.45' (using password:
YES) in /home/a4935911/public_html/MySQL+PHP.php on line 9
AND
Failed to connect to MySQL: Access denied for user
'a4935911_people'#'10.1.1.45' (using password: YES)
Any ideas, anyone?

Answer 1

Wrong argument sequence here:
$con=mysqli_connect($mysql_host,$mysql_database,$mysql_user,$mysql_password);
Look at the message: Access denied for user 'a4935911_people'#'10.1.1.45' (using password: YES) where a4935911_people is not a user, it is your database's name as set above $mysql_database = "***********_people";.
Use: Host, user, password, dbname as described in the Documentation.
Solution:
$con=mysqli_connect($mysql_host, $mysql_user, $mysql_password, $mysql_database);

Answer 2

argument sequence is following order.
$host ="localhost" // change to your host
$username ="root" // change to your mysql user name by default root
$pass =" " //add password if any
mysql_connect($host,$username,$pass) //don't change the sequence
mysql_select("test") // create the test database in mysql

Answer 3

Two possible reasons:
Wrong username/password - check it carefully.
You can't connect remotely, connections are allowed only via localhost. Check your hosting website for such information. If it's not allowed, you can do nothing.

Answer 4

In Addition to the possible conclusions that #ElonThan provides...
it's also possible that your username lacks the proper privileges to the database you are connecting to.

Answer 5

You need to set up mysql to allow remote connection for a particular user in the MySQL database server i.e. mysqlXX.000webhost.com here . The default syntax is:
grant <permission> on <database> to <user>#<location> identified by <password>
So here you have to use(as you have specified the parameters)-
grant all on ***********_people.* to '*************_admin'#'10.1.1.45' identified by '******************'
So for your case run the following command-
grant all on database_name.* to 'username'#'your_ipaddress' identified by 'password'
Run this command in MySQL command prompt.
This will allow username to connect from your IP using that password and give all permissions on all tables in the specified database.
To allow any user to connect from any IP address and use all the tables in any database use the following syntax-
grant all on *.* to '%'#'%' identified by 'password'
And finally you have to use the following command-
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
To reload all privileges.

Answer 6

For 000webhost.com (Free Hosting Service ) you should Test your code online by uploading it to 000webhost.com server.
That will solve your problem for sure.