Re: Legal advice

If the licensing is an issue, you should be able to automate the exporting of data from Access/Excel, and suck it into MySQL, and then web-host MySQL only. You'd have to read your Access license with a lawyer, not here, to be sure what's kosher... -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon <jzuazoa@nexo.es> Newsgroups: php.general To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:48 AM Subject: Legal advice > Hi, > > We are working with PHP & MYSQL, and we would like to publish some > information that we have with MS ACCESS and MS EXCEL, and altough I know > that it is posible to connect an access database using ODBC from PHP, > however I don't know if it is legal to do this without having to pay > licenses to Microsoft for accessing its database through the web. > > On the other hand and if it will be too expensive to use access with ODBC, I > would to know if there is an easy way to insert the information in EXCEL / > ACCESS to a MYSQL database. > > Thanks > > > >