I have been playing around with lite-c for a few months and wanted to try out a mutiplayer rpg now that I feel at home with this language. I have finally bought A-Net today and will start with that manual tonight.

I would also need a database for my game and have a few questions. My database is not for serverlists, it is for items/players/mobs/skills stats and stuff like that. My game server will be on one computer on my lan and my mysql server will be on another computer also on my lan, the clients will conect from internet (I have set up port forwarding on my router to my game server computer).

I do not know anything about php, but what I do know is that I do not want clients to access my database, only the server will. The game server and the database server will both be on the same lan (not accessed through internet, because i need direct fast access through lan since there will be lots of traffic. For example: each time a player attacks I have to do several "selects", one on the player database for his attributes and equipped weapon, then on the weapons database for the damage, (do calculations with player str, dex and weapon damage), and then again another select on the player database for the defenders attributes and equipped armour, and again on the items database for the armor properties and do final calculations with defender's dex, constitution and armor).

I have lots of experience with SQL as it was one of my courses at my university, but unfortunately I have no experience with php yet.
I was wondering... since I do not need my clients to access my database from the internet... could I connect my gs/anet server to mysql server on the same lan and pass it the queries directly withought having to use php?

(mabe it sounds like a stupid question because I still have not learned anet and have no idea of php)