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March 4th, 2003, 12:16 PM

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Php forum connection

i created a simple forum for a web page whit a ACCESS database
it works great on my machine but when i put it on the net it dosent connect whit my db.
can some1 tell me the proper way to connect to my database
its made whit Access and is called forum

forum.php
<?
// This is the DSN we have create for our database
$connect = odbc_connect("forum", "root", "");
?>
<HTML>
<BODY>
<div align="center"><BR>
<BR>
<A HREF='node.php?node=0'>Écrire un nouveau message</A>
<?

shownode(0); // display all the main threads

// This function is a recursive function which shall display all the branches
// and sub branches of the threads
function shownode($nodecode)
{
global $connect; // using the global variable for connection
// Get a list of all the sub nodes which specific parentcode
$noderesult = odbc_exec($connect,"select * from forum where parentcode = $nodecode");
echo "<UL type='disc'>";
while(odbc_fetch_row($noderesult)) // get all the rows
{
$code = odbc_result($noderesult,"code");
$title = odbc_result($noderesult,"title");
$uname = odbc_result($noderesult,"uname");
$email = odbc_result($noderesult,"email");
echo "<LI>";
echo "<A HREF='node.php?node=$code'> $title </A>";
echo "-- de ($uname) $email<BR>";
shownode($code);
}
echo "</UL>";
}
?>
</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>

node.php
<?
$connect = odbc_connect("forum", "root", "");
if(isset($submit)) // check if submitted button is clicked
{
// insert the record in the database
$resultupdate=odbc_exec($connect,"insert into forum
(parentcode,title,description,uname,email) VALUES
($node,'$title','$description','$postname','$email ')");
header("location:forum.php"); // open forum.php file to display the thread
exit;
}
?>

<?
if ( $node != 0 )
{
// Displaying the details of the thread
echo "<HR>";
$noderesult = odbc_exec($connect,"select * from forum where code = $node");
$noderow=odbc_fetch_row($noderesult);
$title = odbc_result($noderesult,"title");
$description = odbc_result($noderesult,"description");
$uname = odbc_result($noderesult,"uname");
$email = odbc_result($noderesult,"email");
echo "$title by ($uname) $email<BR>";
echo "$description <BR><HR>";
}
?>

<FORM method='post'">
<div align="center">
<p>Nom :
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=postname>
E-Mail :
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=email>
<BR>
Titre :
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=title VALUE = '' size=50>
<BR>
Description : <BR>
<TEXTAREA name=description rows=10 cols=45></TEXTAREA>
</p>
<p>

<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=node value='<? echo $node;?>'>
<BR>
<INPUT type=submit name=submit value='Post Message'>
</p>
</div>
</FORM>

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