In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ray
Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:

>      $host = 'localhost';

> ... to connect to the MySQL database. When run from your wife's  
> computer, you'll have to change the 'localhost' to the IP address

Just use the zero-conf Bonjour stuff. Find your server's name and
append .local to it.  Look in the Sharing control panel for the right
name.

   $host = 'albook.local';

It's not just Mac, either. You can get stuff for the various other
unices and even Windows to do this.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/

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