Re: Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

Hi, The simplest way i know of to use access from linux is to use mdbtools (a free download at sourceforge). Haven't tried to invoke this from PHP but it would not be all that difficult to create a MDB module. Curt Zirzow wrote:

* Thus wrote Giz (gizmo@gizmola.com):

Access is a pc database. It doesn't run on unix. Why people insist on beating their heads against the wall in this manner I will never know. Ignorance I suppose. The alternative is to have your friend use a relational database and have a few simple forms that will allow him to insert/update/delete. Best of both worlds, and the open source/free databases mysql/postgresql are used on thousands of websites every day.

First off, Access has nothing to do with a pc, it is the communication layer that causes the problem. And the only drivers available for this layer are for MS Windows. PC != MS Windows Second, Not every solution can be solved by plopping a mysql/postregsql database server somewhere and use it. There are multiple reasons why people choose one database over the other, like costs, familiarity, and quickness of results. MS Access is used on thousands of websites every day too. Curt

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