PHP & MS Access - is it possible?

[douga]

I am pretty new to scripting and everything. . . I was just wondering if I can use MS Access with PHP. I have Access 2002 and am a little more familiar with it than MYSQL. Whenever I've tried to use MYSQL i get all messed up it's to DOS-ish for me (in other words I haven't figured the thing out yet).
But since I am more familiar with Access I thought it may be easier to use. My site is hosted on a UNIX server. So my question is basically can I use Access, will it be complatible with most systems, and does anyone know of any tutorials on the web where I can learn how??

Thanks
doug

[firepages]

you wont be able to use MSaccess on *NIX systems.

MS access is fun offline , I prefer Paradox, but neither should be used for a web-application, MSaccess can not handle many concurrent connections and will break quite quickly ,it simply was not built with web-applications in mind.

for mysql administration grab a copy of phpmyadmin from www.phpwizards.com which gives you a browser based interface for creating and managing your MySQL databases

[slaskis]

i'm not sure but i think you can import access db to mysql somehow, i think i've seen such a script on hotscripts or such site

[firepages]

MySQL Front - http://www.mysqlfront.de - great tool for mysql/MSaccess import/export (requires myODBC from www.mysql.com)