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

At 03:18 25.08.2003, Weston Cann said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >I share a low regard for Access, and I've got a set of standard >forms/code I use to set up a nice interface to MySQL, and I showed it to >my friend. He likes that, but there's a problem: > >He wants to be able to make changes offline, and then sync up. > >This isn't an uncommon desire... I've run into people wanting to do this >before (with Excel spreadsheets, no less). And in fact, it's probably >the most convenient way of doing things, as long as they're warned about >certain dangers (overwrites from competing unsynced database files). >There's a certain cumbersome nature about web forms and the time delay >involved in HTTP transactions. > >So anyway, that's the motivation for using Access here. --------------------[snip]-------------------- You could do that without too much effort. Export the data to be synced from MS Access to a CSV style export format, upload it to the server and process it. There are a couple of examples how to handle CSV style data on SourceForge, I believe. -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/