If you are creating a new game you nolonger have to create your database using another program like phpMyAdmin or through the command line with mysql. The game will create the database for you. Since the user connecting to the database MUST have Create permissions to create the tables they will also have Create permissions to create a new database. This will remove alot of frustration some admins have had in the past.

Quote from Panama Jack’s blog at AATraders.com .

I’m not sure if PJ did this (I seriously doubt it – someone would have picked up on it) but since when did permission to create Tables, translate into permissions to create Databases??? As we who use shared hosting realise – only the primary account user can create Databases (and usually only from cpanel et al.). Typically for various security reasons most users would assign a database a lower level user with permissions only to create tables. Afterall do we really want to leave any file on our system with the primary DB account and pass in plain text – whether a PHP file or other? That could compromise every database on our account…

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