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Hey guys, question about PHP, I'm trying to help out a friend but I don't
really know anything about php.

I'm also pretty amaturish at asp. I know how to read/write to an access db
etc. Basically, I know the first half of the UD 1.0 manual inside out.

What I would actually like to learn though is how to connect to a dbase in
php...

From what I understand, I can create an odbc connection to mysql dbase. And
I was wondering if that would be similar to how I'd do it in DW when I'm
connecting to an mdb using asp classic?

Oops, sorry for mistitleing my topic

All you need to connect is to add this to a php page.

// connect to database
$connection = mysql_connect("localhost", "adminusername", "adminpass") or
die("Invalid server or user");
// select database
mysql_select_db("DBNAME",$connection);

Usually you can leave localhost but just substitute

adminusername
adminpass
DBNAME

with your own values.


"Robert Blackwell" <robbie (AT) wowcentral (DOT) com> wrote

Hey guys, question about PHP, I'm trying to help out a friend but I don't
really know anything about php.

I'm also pretty amaturish at asp. I know how to read/write to an access db
etc. Basically, I know the first half of the UD 1.0 manual inside out.

What I would actually like to learn though is how to connect to a dbase in
php...

From what I understand, I can create an odbc connection to mysql dbase.
And
I was wondering if that would be similar to how I'd do it in DW when I'm
connecting to an mdb using asp classic?