Hopelessly lost -- mySQL & Mac

PHP
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Help! I’m trying to follow along with the book “Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & My SQL”. I’ve tried to do what the book asked in Chapter 1 by downloading mySQL, but I can’t find it to do anything with it. I’m on a Mac, OS X v5. It shows up in my system preferences and says that it’s running, but how do I use it? I’m so lost…

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Hey,

are you saying that you have no idea how to run mySQL in Mac?

Well, let’s just assume you have installed it correctly, then,

  1. Open your terminal.
  2. Type:

shell> mysql -u <user_name> -h <server_host> -p <database_name>

I hope that what you are looking for;)

Thanks,

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geez, I didn’t even know that I needed to use terminal. I think that I need to get the server_host info from my provider, but I thought that this would let me proof locally without having to contact them – I’m sorry, but I’m a designer and this is all so foreign to me.

also, it keeps returning –

-bash: shell: command not found
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What, specifically, can’t you do? What does the book ask you to do that you can’t?

Seems you have mysql running fine, if you want to you can open up a command line interface to mysql by typing “mysql” without quotes at the command prompt, but if the book doesn’t tell you to do that then don’t bother :).

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this whole typing commands without a graphic interface is beyond my experience. I think that I know where the command prompt is in terminal, but I never USE terminal so I don’t understand what it’s trying to tell me. what the heck is “-bash” ?? My book is on a computer at work. I’m at home now, so not much will happen between now and Monday, except I’d like to be a little less of an idiot by then. I feel like I standing on the edge of a cliff throwing commands out there with no idea 1) if anything can hear it, and 2) if it is heard, is it sensible or just a jumble of symbols.

FML