RE: [PHP-DB] use acces on Windows NT with php
| From: | Matthias Endler | Date: | Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:04:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] use acces on Windows NT with php | ||
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Hi Lionel,
> Is it possible to use odbc connections to work with an acces base
> on Windows
> NT server ?
yes this is possible, but Access is not good choice for a production
environment.
> I think a lot to migrate to Linux, Php, ans mysql. But till now I use
> Windows NT, Asp/Vbscript-PerlScript, and access.
> I'm not able to set my production systems on Linux for the
> moment. So I need
> to use PHP on my NT server IIS. Like MySql is not free on win32
> systemes, I
> will nee to use acces.
Well, maybe you get Interbase which is an Open Source Database and available
free of charge from http://www.interbase.com/. It's
easy to use and a lot
more scalable and reliable than MS Access. The other point is if you're
thinking of migrating to Linux Access is even a worse choice (not available
for Linux), you better give Interbase a try because it's available for NT,
Linux and other OSs. You can find the latest binary PHP distribution at
http://www.php4win.de/ make sure you get version 4.0.4-dev.
Read the
documentation carefully which ships with it and you should have no problem
of setting it up on NT+IIS.
Cheers,
Matthias