Connecting to a remote mysql server - php

Question

How would I connect to the demo phpmyadmin server in php? My code looks like this.
<?php
$host = 'http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/STABLE/';
$dbname = 'shubham';
$user = 'root';
$pass = '';
// Attempt to connect to database.
try {
$DBH = new PDO("mysql:host={$host};dbname={$dbname}", $user, $pass);
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>
but I get this as my error
QLSTATE[HY000] [2005] Unknown MySQL server host 'http://www.demo.phpmyadmin.net/STABLE/' (1)

Answer 1

You seem to be confusing two things:
the demo phpMyAdmin front-end that is backed by a db server and db/schema
the db server and schema itself
PDO needs the latter, the db server itself.
Inspecting the front-end code of the demo, I don't see anything in there that would give us the actual connection details for the db server. And that's as I would expect: I find it hard to believe that the makers/maintainers of the phpMyAdmin demo would make their actual db server available for public remote connections.

Answer 2

change your hostname from
$host = 'http://demo.phpmyadmin.net/STABLE/';
to your original remote hostname like eg $host = 'ukld.db.5510597.hostedresource.com';

Answer 3

MySQL does not work on HTTP
<?php
$host = 'demo.phpmyadmin.net';
// High chances that this is NOT your mysql hostname.
// It will not even by like /STABLE/ as you mentioned it.
$dbname = 'shubham';
$user = 'root';
$pass = '';
// Attempt to connect to database.
try {
$DBH = new PDO("mysql:host={$host};dbname={$dbname}", $user, $pass);
} catch(PDOException $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>