Problem fixed! Thank you to David who pointed out that I had my variables switched in the in the odbc_exec and odbc_cursor lines. For ODBC, the connection variable comes first (the opposite of MySQL). Bev ---------------------- Beverly Steiner steiner277@charter.net -----Original Message----- From: Beverly Steiner [mailto:steiner277@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 1:58 PM To: PHPDB Subject: FW: problem connecting w/ODBC Hello again, Does anyone have suggestions about where I can get an answer to the problems I'm having with ODBC? I've tried using: $cursor = odbc_cursor($connection) || die("cannot create cursor"); and get a similar error: Warning: odbc_cursor(): supplied resource is not a valid ODBC result resource in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\test4.php on line 13 cannot create cursor Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been trying unsuccessfully to access to an MS Access database with PHP for weeks now. Any ideas of where I can get the answer? I have posted to the PHP-INST and PHP-DB lists. ---------------------- Beverly Steiner steiner277@charter.net -----Original Message----- From: Beverly Steiner [mailto:steiner277@charter.net] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 7:13 PM To: PHPDB Subject: problem connecting w/ODBC Hello, I am having problems accessing a database through ODBC. I first sent an email describing my problems accessing an MS Access database through PHP. Today I installed MySQL. I have no problems accessing my test database with the mysql commands. I downloaded MySQL's ODBC driver. I get the same error message trying to access this database w/ODBC as I did with the MS Access database. I am running Windows XP Professional, PHP 4.3.1, and Apache 1.3.27. Here's my PHP code: $connection = odbc_connect("testmysql", "", "") or die ("Couldn't connect to the server."); $sql = "SELECT * FROM member"; $result = odbc_exec($sql,$connection) or die ("Couldn't execute query"); I get the following error message in my browser: Warning: odbc_exec(): supplied argument is not a valid ODBC-Link resource in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\test4.php on line 17 Couldn't execute query Anyone have any ideas of what I should do so I can access a database through ODBC? ---------------------- Beverly Steiner steiner277@charter.net -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
