Can't submit data to database with php

[mrguyhawkes]

Website URL

(http://skandiwebtestartursz.rf.gd/)

Error Message

Connection error: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No address associated with hostname

Other Information

I have edited correct mySQL server information on my submit.php page. Im a free user. Maybe thats the problem? I cant edit database outside the server?
Thank you

[Oxy]

Hi and welcome to the forum

Please check that you don’t have a space character between the quotation marks and that the data is generally correct

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@mrguyhawkes

Im a free user. Maybe thats the problem?

Definitely not…free user also use db without any issue…!
Kindly check the credentials used for DB connection

[mrguyhawkes]

So as I understand, I can’t just open up my website from browser with its Nomain and just add things to database? So how can I test if user (in this case my teacher) can submit data to database?

[Admin]

@mrguyhawkes

Connection error: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No address associated with hostname

This tells me that the MySQL hostname you are using does not exist. Which means you enter something incorrect completely, or like @Oxy said, the database hostname includes a space.

@mrguyhawkes

So as I understand, I can’t just open up my website from browser with its Nomain and just add things to database? So how can I test if user (in this case my teacher) can submit data to database?

You absolutely can! I don’t know where you got the idea from that this doesn’t work.

Everything seems to me like the only thing that’s wrong is a tiny configuration error. Once you fix that, you should be good to go.

[mrguyhawkes]

Thank you. I will try to debug it.