Unfortunately that doesn't answer my question because of what I need to do. I probably should have included this in the first post, but here is the scenario: My client has a website in which a customer will be purchasing gift certificates online. They don't need a comprehensive e-commerce package, just simple information passed across a secure connection, such as: user names, passwords, credit cards and mailing addresses. We already have a MySQL db set up with the gift certificate "package" information. I just need to be able to store the customer information for retrieval later by the owners of the site. Joshua Minnie josh@wildwebtech.com Independent Web Consultant / Developer Wild Web Technology www.wildwebtech.com "Marco Tabini" <marcot@tabini.ca> wrote: > I usually build an SSH tunnel whenever I need to connect securely to a > remote MySQL server. There's a tutorial on how to do that here: > > http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/display_article.cgi?908 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php