I have been working on my first php and MySQL database site, I seem to have it all up and running without problems on my laptop computer (running OSX Jaguar), now I want to go live with it all I have found I don't really understand how i connect to the remote host datbase to creat a user for the web pages and build the tables which I can do without problems on my "localhost" laptop. I have read some articals on the web and in a couple of books I have at home but they all refer to localhost and show a user connecting from mysql> but how does this relate to working on the remote host rather than the laptop? I wrote a script in php "included below" then placed it on my server and called the page from a browser to try and create the tables thinking this might be a solution but it seems not, I seem to be able to make the connection to the datbase but the script does not run the querys to create the tables. I am getting very confused, if anyone knows where I can get clear information on connecting to the MySQL database to create tables and another user then I would appricate it if they could point me in that dirrection. I have searched the web but I still can't seem to find a clear way of doing this.