@sadness hi! you have a slight something you might want to edit -- in your PHP snippet for building a configfile, you note "/* this will always be localhost */" which isn't true! Dreamhost f'rex uses "mysql.domainname.tld" instead of localhost; just thought I'd give you a heads up so PHP newbies wouldn't end up puzzled or panicked :)
@evenstar ty for letting me know!! I will definitely correct that!