I would recommend spending a couple of hours hacking in this Tutorial:
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/MilesToGo/
It deals with something we all know how it's supposed to work (an appointment
calendar) and it is both simple and a little tricky (for a total newbie) at the
same time...
That
First of all there's no reason to be using and ODBC Driver. You can access
mysql directly through PHP.
So you can access mysql through the mysql set of functions in the php
documentation at:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php
Secondly you can learn how to make the querys in question at
