[cobalt-developers] ODBC to Win98 MS Access .MDB on RAQ2 for PHP4

["Sigurd Magnusson" <phobo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ODBC to Win98 MS Access .MDB on Cobalt RAQ2 for PHP4

Today I tried for hours to work out the different functions of iODBC
(www.iodbc.org) and Openlink (www.openlinksw.com) in an attempt to connect
to a Microsoft Access (.MDB) Database from PHP Scripts on a Raq2, except the
documentation is vague and scattered all over the place and the whole thing
has baffeled me.

Has anyone out there suceeded in doing this ?

I have no absolutely no problems in recompiling the new PHP and Apache
sourcecode (I needed to do this for session support), but if i try to link
in the iODBC to php the web server will not startup again with the new .conf
file.

(i took the .taz file and ran "sh install.sh", then continued with
php/apache installation).

As for the DSN's im all confused - do I _NEED_ openlink on the Raq if I am
connecting to a DSN on a Win32 machine ? Do I need it on the Raq, even ?
Can't I create an Access .MDB DSN which I connect to from the Raq??!

Is there some easier way -- I remember reading about something called 'TDS'
which claimed to be easier than OpenLink but I can not find it anywhere.

Please reply to phobo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - I am not on this list.

Siggy

ps: any helpful replies get a chocolate fish ;)