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NEED FORM BUT NO ACCESS TO DATABASE!??

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:24 am
by vats
Hello,
I am a web developer from India.I am in a big trouble currently and need some ones help its very urgent.
So, I was working for a employer who hired me from odesk for hourly jobs. I was working hard and he was happy too so I bought a domain vatsalmishra.com( For my portfolio website) from him as he was having hosting account at Bluehost.com. Everything was good until I stopped working for him, now I have lost my access to cpanel of bluehost but due to his generosity I can still access my domain through ftp.

My question is, is there a way I can use database from any other domain( a free one) so my files will be at vatsalmishra.com but using database at some other domain.
One more thing I had installed wordpress in my domain previously is there a way I can use its database for storing other records.

Any help will be highly appreciated!
Thanks!

Re: NEED FORM BUT NO ACCESS TO DATABASE!??

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:00 pm
by twinedev
Use the database that wordpress is using, as most likely the username/password you have for it will allow you to create new tables. Just use another prefix to keep make them easier to organize.

As to if you can use a database from anohter host, yes as long as they allow you to set remote access for the user you set up (and you'd want to lock it down to the IP of where your website is calling from. I'd still go with sharing the database with WP, as this will be more secure and faster access.

Lastly, if you neither of those would work for you, you could look into sqlLite.

-Greg

Re: NEED FORM BUT NO ACCESS TO DATABASE!??

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:44 am
by vats
Thanks for your help Greg! I will try to use the wordpress database.