Interesting thing, for a test database you could also use XAMPP locally, which costs nothing by the way.
Hmm, never heard of xampp but yes, you could also use it if you want to have your own localhost testdatabase

. Using localhost while developping in a team is already harder though.
Or does this not work because you internally always link to your server?
There is a forth function, called db_connect and allows to connect to a different database, but this will be available in the future.
