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

[Weston C]

I'm building a small web application for a friend using PHP. He'd like to
use MS Access to keep the data in, and update the data on the site by FTP'ing
Access files he edits on his machine up to the web host.

The web host is unix-based (FreeBSD, slightly hacked by Verio, I believe), so
this means COM functions aren't available. ODBC was my next thought, but I've
never used it, and there are a few things I don't understand. Setting up a
DSN is one of them -- apparently this isn't as simple as constructing a string,
and all the tutorials I can find seem to involve going into a Windows control
panel and making a setting. This of course will not be possible, since there
are no windows control panels on FreeBSD.

Can anyone offer any quick tips on how to use the odbc database functions or
PEAR::DB to query data from an MS Access file sitting on a UNIX box?

Thanks in advance!

[Michiel]

Weston C wrote:

I'm building a small web application for a friend using PHP. He'd like to
use MS Access to keep the data in, and update the data on the site by FTP'ing
Access files he edits on his machine up to the web host.

The web host is unix-based (FreeBSD, slightly hacked by Verio, I believe), so
this means COM functions aren't available. ODBC was my next thought, but I've
never used it, and there are a few things I don't understand. Setting up a
DSN is one of them -- apparently this isn't as simple as constructing a string,
and all the tutorials I can find seem to involve going into a Windows control
panel and making a setting. This of course will not be possible, since there
are no windows control panels on FreeBSD.

Can anyone offer any quick tips on how to use the odbc database functions or
PEAR::DB to query data from an MS Access file sitting on a UNIX box?

Thanks in advance!

You could upload a csv file and then import it into mysql with "LOAD
DATA INFILE 'filename' INTO table". You can create a csv file from
Access with "Save as".

Michiel.

[Peter Jones]

Michiel <michiel@...NO...SPAM!*.2see.nl> wrote in
news:3f***********************@news.xs4all.nl:

You could upload a csv file and then import it into mysql with "LOAD
DATA INFILE 'filename' INTO table". You can create a csv file from
Access with "Save as".

You can do that?

Excuse me, I'll be over in the corner, kicking myself... :-)

Pete.