RE: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-26 Thread Wouter van Vliet
Access Database file on *NIX platform - using PHP - - - - On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 05:31 PM, Giz wrote: - - Access is a pc database. It doesn't run on unix. Why people - insist on - beating their heads against the wall in this manner I will never know. - Ignorance I suppose

RE: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-25 Thread Giz
] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP 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

Re: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-25 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Giz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Access is a pc database. It doesn't run on unix. Why people insist on beating their heads against the wall in this manner I will never know. Ignorance I suppose. The alternative is to have your friend use a relational database and have a few simple

RE: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-25 Thread Paul Fitzpatrick
* Thus wrote Giz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Access is a pc database. It doesn't run on unix. Why people insist on beating their heads against the wall in this manner I will never know. Ignorance I suppose. The alternative is to have your friend use a relational database and have a few simple

Re: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-25 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote David Otton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:54:41 -0400 (EDT), you 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 Suggestion: go backwards. Set up the

Re: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-25 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, The simplest way i know of to use access from linux is to use mdbtools (a free download at sourceforge). Haven't tried to invoke this from PHP but it would not be all that difficult to create a MDB module. yeah, I saw a reference to

Re: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-25 Thread Weston Cann
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 05:31 PM, Giz wrote: Access is a pc database. It doesn't run on unix. Why people insist on beating their heads against the wall in this manner I will never know. Ignorance I suppose. The alternative is to have your friend use a relational database and have a few

Re: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-25 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 03:18 25.08.2003, Weston Cann said: [snip] I share a low regard for Access, and I've got a set of standard forms/code I use to set up a nice interface to MySQL, and I showed it to my friend. He likes that, but there's a problem: He wants to be able to

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

2003-08-24 Thread weston
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

Re: [PHP] Reading an MS Access Database file on *NIX platform using PHP

2003-08-24 Thread David Otton
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:54:41 -0400 (EDT), you 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