PHP and MS Access

Question

How can we connect a PHP script to MS Access (.mdb) file?

I tried by including following PHP code:

$db_path =          


        

Answer 1

I'm not certain if this is a violation of best practices or security, but I would like to throw out this suggestion:

set up an ODBC connection and include the database's password in the odbc advance settings. give the odbc conn a DSN name then save.

in your code, just set up the connection like:

try {
  $conn = @odbc_connect("DSNName", "", "", "SQL_CUR_USE_ODBC");
  // un and pw parameters are passed as empty strings since the DSN 
  // has knowledge of the password already.
  // 4th parameter is optional

  $exec = @odbc_exec($conn, $insert) or die ("exec error");
  echo "success!";
}
catch (Exception $e) {
  echo $e->getMessage();
} // end try catch