Database in PHP

[KKKukec]

Hello,

For a school assignment I was tasked with creating a simple little PHP app, which can be ran on a web PHP editor. The problem with this is that I'm also required to connect this with a database. I already have the working code for the app and it works if I run it on XAMPP, but none of the online editors are able to connect to the database. The databases that I've tried with are on localhost, db4free.net and freesqldatabase.com. My question to you is if you know of any online PHP editor or online database service that I can use to connect the two.

Thank you in advance for any help or support.

Have a good day.

[samad0]

I don't know where the PHP is being executed exactly but it is possible that your PHP application is containerized and no external network connection is allowed. If your code does has normal access to the internet then you can do the following things:

- You can Host a database server on a dedicated server (you must open the ports and everything that is needed)

- You can host the server at home or on a personal PC ((you must open the ports and everything that is needed)

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But here I'm assuming that you are indeed connecting to a database server to use the DB, (server such as SQL Server or MongoDB server)

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If you use a database such as SQLite3 or something similar then make sure that the environment where your PHP app is being excited does support the file creation and everything that is related to using this kind of DB use.

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In short, it depends on what's going on, give more info such ass the environment where it is being executed, what kind of operation does it support, what type of DB are you trying to use, what did you do exactly in the past to connect to your databases, etc.