Connecting to a remote db

Hello guys,

This questions is about databases. Lets say i have a database at mywebsite1.com and i want the php script at mywebsite2.com to access the same databases as mywebsite1.com...

So in my php configuration file (where the db login details go), i assume

$dbhost='localhost'; would be changed to $dbhost='SOMETHING ELSE'; ???

I need to know what comes instead of localhost and where can i find that from my server. I was able to find something called

MYSQL_SOCKET /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

is that it?

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

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