I completely agree with this. Whenever you can build an app that isn't backend specific, you'll win points with integraters. If you can build an app that works with the big four, (Oracle, MS SQL...

This question really should be posted in the Web admins forum, but it sounds like there might be a security issue on the web server side. When you post to the other forum, you'll want to include the...

You should be able to install MySQL on just about any machine and use it as a database.

Now I'm confused. Are you getting an error on the dB side or on the web server side? If you're having trouble getting a php file to work, you should probably post your question to a web dev forum....

couldn't you just write a standard SELECT query like this

SELECT hit FROM hitted WHERE id = 1;

It looks like there is supposed to be another field named limit in there. If there is field named...