Hey all,
I had a request from a client to set up a CMS, which I can do, for them. They currently do not, however, already have a MySQL database, so I wrote to their host. He gave me a technical reply, of which I understand parts.

I also need to know the catalog name you'd like to use and the username and password to set for access. We use MySQL with an InnoDB engine and provide access for configuration via a phpmyadmin web interface. We also need to know the name of the System DSN which you'd like to use for the ODBC connection.

I get the words "username" and password", and I have used phpmyadmin before. I do not, however, know what catalog name I need to specify, or what system DSN I should specify.

Any help appreciated,
Harry

for catalog name read database name

and the system DSN (DataSource Name) is the Windows ODBC details and they are asking for the file name to save it as.

It doesn't matter what name you give to a DNS. It's just a sort of a hub that database interaction gets routed through.

Catalog = Database