Hi Sean and Nabeel,
I have finally regained database access after four days of the hosting company trying to sort out their update (5.0 to 5.1) problem.
phpVMS is working perfectly now, thanks.
Unfortunately, my database was completely trashed - no tables, no data, nothing, during the update. As I am only at the start up stage, this wasn't a major issue, just five flights lost. But I would have been really annoyed if they had lost my data after, say, a year of operations. You can bet I will be doing regular back-ups.
Sean, my host uses phpMyAdmin for its MySQL databases, but as the databases were totally lost, it wouldn't have helped.
From what I can remember of the first time I tried phpVMS on MySQL 5, some of the fields weren't populating or weren't updating - I can't remember which. But I do know that when I set up on v4, it all worked like a charm. Just like it is doing now.
Thanks for your feedback anyway. I suspect that the problem was a hosting company inspired one, but it's now resolved.
Ken