Welcome to ODBC with PHP Recently I was tasked to port a MySQL database that I had been working on over to an Microsoft Accessdatabase file. Although I was not thrilled about doing this, during my research and implementation, I learned afew new tricks with PHP. During the course of this tutorial I'll share my findings with you. The main reason I had to switch to a Microsoft Access database on the site I was uing MySQL is because weneeded a method for multiple people to manage the database and we needed a method to make the databaseportable. We wanted to have the ability to pick up the database, put it on a floppy or a CD or even email it to adifferent computer and access the information outside of the intranet. These were our reasons, you may findother reasons to use the methods in this tutorial as well. You'll be quite suprised that configuring your existing PHP script to use Open Database Connectivity(ODBC) is not too much different than using MySQL. The queries are nearly the same with the exception of afew less MySQL query functions. ODBC is also less forgiving than MySQL so you have to be very careful.