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Asked by jazzray in MySQL Server, PHP and Databases, PHP Scripting Language
Hi,
My company has a website built by a 3rd party using MySQL and PHP and hosted on their machine. They charge rather a lot to do anything on this website. However, I am interested in learning MySQL & PHP (I am familiar with Microsoft SQL and have a rusty background in programming) and thought that, if I take a copy of our website, I could learn using this live website as an example ...... and also hopefully learn enough about our site that I could eventually make (simple?) changes without being charged so much.
The company that developed the website have (eventually) given me FTP access and I've downloaded all the folders I can see. The bits of interest are primarily PHP code and, although I don't know PHP, it looks similar to other languages and I have figured out the bit which connects to the database. However, how can I get to 'see' this database and perhaps take a copy of it? I know that, in order to use MySQL and PHP I'm going to have to install them etc on my local machine ......... but is there a sequence of things I need to do to 'get at' the data on this remote hosting machine? I can tell from the PHP what the database is called, the user name and the password to access it.
Any advice to a real newbie on these techniques would be very gratefully received. Thanks.
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