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[Robert Blackwell]

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?

[Robert Blackwell]

Oops, sorry for mistitleing my topic

[Phunchak]

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@wowcentral.com> wrote in message
news:bfd12o$idh$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> 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?
>
>
>