get data from other db

Hello, My name is sibel and im new in this list and new in php but i think,i will learn lot from here. and i have a question; can we get some data from any other database in an other server? and i want to take an university's faculty and department from database. if so, how? but i heard that we can do this in asp with each codes: <html> <body> <form .....> <select ..> <% set conn = server.createObject("AdoDb.Connection") conn.open = 'sibel' sql = "select * from faculty" query = sever.execute(sql) do while not query.eof %> <option> <%=query.fields(facultyname) %> </option> <% loop %> </select> and i want to learn that if we can read mail only on web and what is its address? thank you all sibel. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com