And if you are using ODBC from *nix, you will want to configure it --with-iodbc as per the HOWTO at www.iodbc.org.
Best regards, Andrew Hill Director of Technology Evangelism OpenLink Software - http://www.openlinksw.com On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 10:34 AM, Ever Lopez wrote: > First make sure you have installed the MyODBC Driver > Then make a odbc DSN to the MySQL database. > > Finally try something like this: > > odbc_connect($DSN_Name,$UserName, $Password) or die("Could not connect > to > the datasource"); > > Hope this helps... > > > "Chris Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribiÛ en el mensaje > 000801c263d1$2cf7fec0$f7fea8c0@chris">news:000801c263d1$2cf7fec0$f7fea8c0@chris... > Hi there everyone, > > I have always used MySQL with PHP without any problems using the > standard > MySQL connection functionality. Is it possible to connect to a MySQL > DB via > ODBC? If so, what would the PHP Connection string be? I am curious > as my > email server allows you to use external databases for users accounts > and I > figure this way I could write a PHP script to control users email > accounts. > > Thanks everyone, sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, not used > ODBC > before so even though I know quite abit about PHP/MySQL, I know diddly > about > ODBC :-) > > Chris Payne > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
