If your site is written in PHP, the default index.html page may still be visible – you should delete this in order to show your site.

<?php
$dbhost = ‘localhost’;
$dbuser = ‘db username’;
$dbpass = ‘db password’;

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die (‘Error connecting to mysql’);

$dbname = ‘db name’;
mysql_select_db($dbname);
?>

Save this as <something>.php and then whenever you want to access the database, just add

include ‘<something>.php’

to the top of a php script and the database can be queried using standard sql commands.

You can create your own php.ini file inside whatever sub-directory your script is in. You can then determine the exact behaviour for your PHP scripts yourself.

There’s a lot of documentation on how to use the various configuration features inside php.ini online at http://uk2.php.net/configuration.

In this case, to set “register globals” on, you can just create a file called “php.ini” in the subdirectory of your website that the script is in, simply saying:

register_globals = on

Please note: if you have enabled PHP5, you will need to call this file “php5.ini” rather than “php.ini”.