Connecting to a remote MySQL database on Google app engine

Question

I\'m working on an application to run on Google app engine. Normally, I would have to enable billing/pay if am using Google Cloud SQL. So for a start, I decided to connect r

Answer 1

In 1.8.8 we made it possible to use remote sockets from PHP.

You'll need to make sure your application has billing enabled for remote sockets to be available. Once you do that you should be able to connect to a remote MySQL database from your app engine app.