Peter Rundle wrote: > Sluggers, > > I've been given some data in .mdb format from one of our lovely > government departments. > (don't even mention the issue of proprietary formats propagated by > public services or I'll scream and possibly kill some brain dead public > servant). > > So I need to read these files and extract the data from them. Google > tells me that you can access this data using an ODBC driver but then > Google also tells me that this is likely to end in a horror story. > However, I believe that I've seen/read somewhere that there are tools > available that allow me to open and read the files directly as raw data > files. > > Does anyone know if this is the case and if so what the name of the > tools are? I think I've seen it done in PHP but thought that might have > been a specially compiled version of PHP or an object library added to > the PHP. > > The PHP on the server I've got to use is a standard version from a > distribution and I don't want to pollute it with binary libraries of > possible. >
I know with a Pear module of some sort installed, PHP can read/write Excel files. It is possible the same is doable with Access files. Of course, it is also possible that it is not the case. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
