I am learning to work with databases / php using xampp v3.2.2 on a win10 platform. as part of the books instructions I was to change the password privileges for the root user and then modify the config.inc.php file so it reflects this change
(#cfg['Servers][$i]['password'] = 'thepassword';), save the file then reload phpMyAdmin. When I did this the welcome screen had an error message stating "invalid settings" and "mysqli_real_connect90: (HY000/1045): Access denies for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES). I cannot connect through a php script and don't want to have to reload the software. How can I fix this?