You might want to look at some of the free abstraction layers out there like ADODB (http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB).
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/ has a couple nice articles on using ADODB. Good luck. Josh > Hi everybody > I am normally working with ASP and ASPX. Now I want to try PHP. I > installed and tried some simple scripts and they are running fine. Now > it is time to working with database but i could not find something > helpful in the manual. Can someone give me a link or better a code how > to connect to a database (SQl and ACCESS) > > Thanks in advance > Raja -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php