> 2009/11/2 Timothy Legg <php_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have PHP Version 5.2.6-1+lenny3
>>
>> I have been having difficulty using odbc_connect with an MS Access MDE
>> database. Â I do have php5-mysql and php5-odbc installed on this server.
>>
>> Due to the rather poor search results regarding the topic of querying
>> MDE
>> files with PHP, I am becoming increasingly concerned that this file type
>> is not supported.
>>
>> Is it possible to query an MDE file via PHP5 or should I try different
>> approach to querying the database from our linux server? Â I am
>> interested
>> in your thoughts.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Tim Legg
>>
>
> If you have the MS Access ODBC driver installed, then have you tried
> accessing the MDE as an MDB?
>
Yes, I have. The username and password are arbitrarily set since the
management hasn't provided that data for me yet. But I am not far enough
along to have run into a user rights issue. I get a warning and also an
error upon interpreting the page. I have checked the path to the database
file, and it is correct. I also checked file ownership and readability
permissions, too. So maybe the name of the driver is wrong; it does look
a little verbose to me, but it did come straight from the php.net online
documentation.
Error messages and source is below. Sorry, I modified the domain name in
the path for privacy.
Warning: odbc_connect() [function.odbc-connect]: SQL error:
[unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default
driver specified, SQL state IM002 in SQLConnect in
/var/www/www.example.com/ht-secure/database_entry/test.php on line 9
<?php
$mdbFilename = "/root/tims_db.mde";
$user = "root";
$password = "1248163264";
$connection = odbc_connect("Driver={Microsoft Access Driver
(*.mdb)};Dbq=$mdbFilename", $user, $password);
?>
Thanks for looking this over,
Tim Legg
>
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