I am currently developing software in which I need to connect to a database that is housed on a web server somewhere. For example, lets say that I created the database and uploaded it to www.someplace.com/data/

that is on the www.someplace.com server in the folder called data on that server. NOW, I need to have an application that resides here on my local computer connect to that database and read information from it (obviously while I am online). I have tried many methods and haven't been able to accomplish this. Anybodies help would be appreciated. Thanks for you time.