Pear AUTH - alternative to DSN??

[aracona]

I can't get AUTH to connect to my MySQL database on a local development server... I've narrowed the problem down to issues with the DSN, but since I'm not experienced with DSNs, (or ODBC, which DSNs seem based on) I've hit a brick wall.

Can someone tell me how to just use a simple connection string instead? That's how I usually connect to MySQL in PHP pages. I'm obviously very inexperienced, but would like to give AUTH a try if I can only get it to connect with my DB... thanks in advance.

[mark]

Not sure what the problem really is, but usually you simply pass a string like 'mysql://username:password@serveraddress/databasename'. Insert the right values and it should work. If it doesn't, you need to elaborate a little bit about e.g. the error messages that you get.