Database connection help

[William_Wallace]

Hi, just wondering if anyone can help.

Im doing my HNC computing and decided to update my website as part of my multimedia project/assessment. I used to use an off site ready made Guestbook, but now I know how to build my own, so I am going to program one myself.

The site is complete apart from the user guestbook. I cannot get Dreamweaver(CS3) to connect to the mySQL database on the server. I have read that it is a problem with Dreamweaver but not sure. I have also tried connecting to the database using Navicat, but it times out the connection.
What is the details I need to put into Navicat to allow me to connect.

I am a bit lost with how to connect, and i have just changed to 3iX hosting from another ISP as well. I hope its not like my old ISP database. It only let me connect using their own myPHPAdmin software on the website.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks all.

[serversphere]

You'll likely have to ask you current host about this. Check their support pages to see if they outline how to connect, otherwise submit a ticket with them.