Help setting up a PHP template website

[Rocky Raccoon]

Hello ladies and gents,

I have a website that I had setup for me that I understand enough how to work with it and troubleshoot for issues.

I want to setup a website to supplement the one I already have.

I have created a database and have template files moved to the FTP, but I have no idea how to direct them to the database to make it all work.

I have been to many sites and watched a ridiculous amount of YouTube tutorials but they all seem to only discuss how to code a website and modify it, not how to actually make it "go". Does anyone have PHP experience and if so, would you mind assisting me?

Thank you so much in advance.

[Regular_John]

It varies from site to site & could be dependant on your CMS (eg: wordpress/drupal) but typically you'll have some variation of of config.php in the root of your site (it's probably wp-config.php if we're talking wordpress).

Anyways within that config file you'll typically have the following (or something like it) to define your database name, url/host, as well as a username/password for that database:

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define('DB_NAME', 'newsitedatabase'); /* Name of your new database /

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username'); /* Username for database */

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '123123'); /* Password for database */

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); /* URL for the base, localhost is common, but not always the case */

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Your best bet may be to do a site wide search for something like DB_HOST to see where it's buried in your particular site.

[Rocky Raccoon]

Sorry about that mods, should have put it in tech talk instead of off topic.

[photon]

No worries!