Re: FreeBSD connecting to Access database on NT/2k
| From: | Jonathan Hilgeman | Date: | Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:45:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: FreeBSD connecting to Access database on NT/2k | ||
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Also, I should mention that I have glanced at two methods:
iODBC and OpenRDA, but I'd like to know if I can use PHP's dl() function to
simply load them when needed, instead of having to recompile...
- Jonathan
"Jonathan Hilgeman" <jhilgeman@ecx.com> wrote in message
news:20010822163735.99704.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> I'm not exactly sure how to go about using PHP on a FreeBSD box to connect
> to an Access database on a Windows NT/2000 machine. I tried odbc_connect
and
> just got an "undefined function" error. But beyond that, all I have is a
URL
> to the database file, and a username and password.
>
> I've heard some suggestions, but I will not mention them because they
seemed
> to be confusing, and if anyone else suggests the solutions, the person
might
> try to offer their own, better explanation of how it all works.
>
> I want something that's free, preferably. :)
>
> - Jonathan, www.SiteCreative.com
>
>