PHP Thirteen - Manipulate a MySQL Database

Hi All

I am busy working through PHP13, in the magic quotes you are told to change the php.ini file. In order to do this I need to change folder permissions, which worked perfectly for the magic quotes section but I seem to have messed up my mysql in xampp and cannot connect to phpmyadmin or any database.

I get the following error in php my admin:

Error
SQL query:

SHOW PLUGINS

MySQL said:

#1 - Can't create/write to file '/var/folders/hm/3d7gnn4n2gs5c1sw6vll7vyc0000gn/T/#sql173_1_2.MYI' (Errcode: 13)

Does any body have a solution?

Solution found here

http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?p=155970

the my.cnf cannot be set to 777, change to 600 and all resolved. So glad I do not have to re-install xampp

I love google, how did the world manage without it

If you need to find the database folder on OSX for xampp it is here

xamppfiles/var/mysql

Completed! after much trouble with easyPHP's mysql.

Just a tip to everyone, if you had previous versions of EasyPHP installed on your computer (on windows, not sure if its the same for Mac), make sure you delete the folders of the older versions in your "C:\program files" folder. If you dont it'll make multiple instances of phpMyAdmin, which eventually confused my computer. . ..

Posted this my issue @ http://stackoverflow.com last night. quite a useful forum! (didnt really get the answer from there but got guided in the right direction.

Done, onto the Portfolio, going to take my time as there are still plenty weeks left til the submission date..Good Luck