Dave, in one or two really old, small and low traffic sites, I've seen Access used as the DD.BB (along with classic ASP). Yes, it's SQL capable, you can connect to it through an OBDC driver. But it really sucks...
There are OBDC drivers for PHP, so I guess it should be possible to connect to an Access DD.BB. It'll probably be slow and won't be able to handle much traffic, but it should be possible. If your client insist on using Access, maybe it's because they already have stuff developed for Access (tables with lots of rows, views, not sure if there are stored procedures in Access) and they're concerned about the upgrading "overhead". Maybe upgrading to MS SQL Server is a more suitable option in that scenario -- not that I've tried that myself, but I've been told that it's easy and sounds reasonable considering both are MS products... On the other hand, I once did an "upgrade" from MS Access to MySql and it wasn't precisely smooth (in part it might just have been that I didn't / don't know much about MS Access). Hope that helps. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2008/2/7, Dave Mennenoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Sorry for that title... I didn't mean to do that. > > I have a client who wants to use Access for their database - yeesh... Is > it > possible to use AMFPHP (Flash8) with MS Access? Is Access SQL capable? Any > decent hosts that offer PHP and Access? Seems unlikely... Should I just > tell > them to man-up and use MySQL? > > > Dave - > Head Developer > http://www.blurredistinction.com > Adobe Community Expert > http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
