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How do I connect to an Access(mdb) database?

Database (Microsoft)

How do I connect to an Access(mdb) database?

by  Karl Blessing  Posted    (Edited  )

This quick tutorial by example, assumes that you have PHP setup on a Windows2000 or NT machine using IIS4+


A quick example by source on how, to demostrate how, I wrote a little quick PHP version of the new postings on my site, (most of my site is done in ASP, I myself am just learning some PHP , I like the structure)

Code: 
<HTML>
<BODY bgcolor=#FFFFFF>
<Table border=1 width="100%" bgcolor="darkgray" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<?
$conn = new COM("ADODB.Connection") or die("Cannot start ADO"); 
//creates the connection object
$conn->Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=D:\\WWWRoot\\kb244com\\www\\_private\\database\\SiteDb2k.mdb;Mode=ReadWrite;Persist Security Info=False");
//opens a connection using a connection string, for some
//people "DSN=name" will suffice if you are using a dNS connection
$rs = $conn->Execute("Select * from Postings order by PostDate DESC");
//opens a recordset from the connection object
    while (!$rs->EOF) {
    //keep looping until end of file
    ?>
	<? $fv = $rs->Fields("PostDate"); ?>
        //in ASP the date comes back correctly for a
        // Date/time type, not sure why it comes back different
        // in PHP
	<TR>
	<TD width="20%" align=left bgcolor=#B5BED6 nowrap><b><? echo $fv->value; ?></b></TD>
	<? $fv = $rs->Fields("PostTopic"); ?>
	<TD align=center bgcolor=#B5BED6><i><? echo $fv->value; ?></i></TD>
	</TR>
	<TR>
	<TD colspan=2 align=left bgcolor="lightgrey">
	<? $fv = $rs->Fields("Post"); ?>
	<? 
	echo ereg_replace( "\n", "<br>", $fv->value );
	?>
	</TD>
	</TR>
	<TR>
	<? $fv = $rs->Fields("Signature"); ?>
	<TD colspan=2 align=right bgcolor=#B5BED6><? echo $fv->value; ?></TD>
</TR>
<tr>
	<td colspan=2>á</td>
	</tr>
   <?
    $rs->MoveNext();
    } 
    $rs->Close(); 
?>
</Table>
</Body>
</HTML>

there you have it a simple connection to an Access database, just make sure that if the database is stored locally on the web, you must put it in a folder with write permision so that it can create it's temporary files.

It is also advisible to place it in the _private folder, so that global webvieiwers cant just download the database (any other folder and the person only needs to do http://www.kb244.com/thefile.mdb to get your database)

Also if anyone of you have ideas on how to improve upon this, let me know, as it would benefit me.
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