How to get a database and connect to it?

Question

I'm very new to all of this web stuff, and I'm pretty young, too, so I'm not great at this. I know PHP and I can make login forms with text files, I really badly want to expand to SQL, I've used SQL before on localhost XAMPP, but how would I create a free database that would work over FTP? Sorry about asking this, but I've searched for ages and found absolutely nothing. I'm connecting to my website "hughchalmers.com", via FTP, and I have no idea how to get SQL on it. Any answers or links are really greatly appreciated. Thanks :)

Answer 1

You need a MySQL or another database server, if your hosting doesn't allow this, you can use free sites such as https://www.freemysqlhosting.net/