mweb wrote: > >mweb, > > To make sure I understand you correctly, you want to create > >and > >test your PHP/MySQL database on your Linux/Apache box, then upload it > >to > >your ISP server that is running PHP/Access? I'm sorry but that's not > >going > >to work. You can't transparently switch a PHP application from MySQL > >to > >Access. > > Yes, you did understand me correctly. > > What I understand ( and could certainly be wrong) is that there are in > PHP layers of abstraction/wrappers/APIs or whatever you call them, > that allow you to do just that, i.e. to write code that is obviously > not as efficient as one written specifically for one single database, > but does work on more of them. > > As a matter of fact, after posting the first message, I bought the > book PHP developers cookbook which has section 16.0 named more or less > How to create a DB independent API with PHP, and that says "at the > beginning of the script is included a file containing all the wrapper > function....."
<shameless plug> http://evilbill.org/php/DBI.php3 I don't have an ODBC module for use under NT/Access but I would love a contribution. </shameless plug> > That's exactly what I was hoping to do. THe site has ~4000 > accesses/month, and just some hundred records in the DB, so performance > is not really an issue here, is it? IMHO, no. b. mysql --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
