I'm building a small web application for a friend using PHP. He'd like to use MS Access to keep the data in, and update the data on the site by FTP'ing Access files he edits on his machine up to the web host.
The web host is unix-based (FreeBSD, slightly hacked by Verio, I believe), so this means COM functions aren't available. ODBC was my next thought, but I've never used it, and there are a few things I don't understand. Setting up a DSN is one of them -- apparently this isn't as simple as constructing a string, and all the tutorials I can find seem to involve going into a Windows control panel and making a setting. This of course will not be possible, since there are no windows control panels on FreeBSD. In short: can anyone offer any quick tips on how to use the odbc database functions or PEAR::DB to query data from an MS Access file sitting on a UNIX box? Thanks, Weston -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php