[KLUG Members] ODBC Connection to MS Access

[Mike Slack]

Check out this FAQ (http://tlowery.hypermart.net/perl_dbi_dbd_faq.html) for some options with Perl.

Mike

Goron, Chris (chris@wyoming.k12.mi.us) wrote:
> Hi all, I believe this is my first post to this list as I have watched
> this list for quite some time and found it very informative. I use Linux
> about 50% of the time for a couple of years now but I work in a NT
> environment which accounts for nearly the other half. Anyways here is my
> question.....
> 
> I have a friend (really) who works in a NT shop who wants to setup an
> Apache web server on Linux but needs to access MS Access and MS SQL
> server from his Apache web app.'s using probably PHP or Perl. I did this
> some time ago using a program I believe it was called OpenLink which was
> an ODBC driver/manager program for Linux. It worked very well and I was
> able to create cgi apps accessing data from MS Access, the only problem
> was I think that program was a commercial app. Is this the only/best way
> to gain access to MS database apps from Linux/Apache?? Are there any
> more "canned" ways for ODBC access from PHP/Perl? I will do some
> searching on the web but I thought your list would provide some good
> suggestions for this.
> 
> Thanks, Chris
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