Re: Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP
| From: | Curt Zirzow | Date: | Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:11:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP | ||
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* Thus wrote jabber@raditha.com (jabber@raditha.com):
> 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.
>
yeah, I saw a reference to that with some google searches. Also
some references of using 'wine' but that seemed to be a little
overkill just to communicate with ms access.
Curt
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