Hello!

How can I access a remote MySql database? I have an application and I would like it to save various data to a MySQL database which is on a web hosting server...somewhere

How can I access it, what's the path to this database? If it's on my computer, it is "localhost", but what if it's far away?

Thank you very very much!

just replace localhost with the hostname or ip address of the remote MySql server.

You'll need to make sure it's configured to accept remote traffic though

Thank you!

But the problem is this. I can define which ip addresses can access it,but...
Here is the idea-I would like to make a multiplayer game in c++ and store player data,location etc. in a MySQL database because it's working fast!

Every player will have a different ip address, and of course I can't add each ip manually

I can allow all ip addresses to access the database, but I don't know what's gonna happen with the security!

I meant the IP of the mysql server not the users.

on another topic, please tell me the client applications are not going to communicate directly with your MySql server.