Hello, some days ago I asked help on this list because I have to develop and test on Linux/Apache some PHP pages that will have to run on on an IIS/NT box. On the real server the pages must manage a MS Access database via ODBC (this mixed setup cannot be changed: explanations in the original message).
Now, first of all I would like to thank everybody for their help, and ask about the following solutions. I know they're awkward, but I must make it work ASAP (and performance is not a problem, even the real server is a relatively low traffic site) 1) I could convert the Access DB to Mysql and then write PHP pages which use a wrapper layer for all standard db management calls (as explained in the PHP Developer's Cookbook, chapter 6). Then the only change needed before uploading on the server would be the include of the file with the wrapper functions. In this way I could test all the DB management part of PHP on Linux/MySQL and be sure that it will work on NT/Access also. 2) I could recreate a Mysql database with the same tables on Linux, and access it indirectly from PHP using the ODBC/MySQL interface. In this way the I would be using ODBC in both cases. I guess this would give bet ter performance, as the wrapper layer is not needed anymore, right? What do you think about: which solution is easier to set up? which gives more guarantees that the PHP code will work transparently? did anybody do it before? any other issue (performance, stability, whatever) TIA, mweb -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]