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vaughty
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Need some help

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I've been learning php and database access (using Microsoft Access) at university as part of one of my modules at university and although the practical lessons have been quite good they only really skimmed the surface.

I've been given some coursework that requires me to create a

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I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some tutorials that will help me to do this. If the tutorials use mySql how difficult is it to change the code to access the Access database? Is it just a case of changing mysql_... to odbc_...?

Thanks in advance,
vaughty
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m3mn0n
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Man i wish i had a class like that. ;)

http://www.phpbuilder.com has some great tutorials and snipplets for this. Also http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP has some forums. You might even want to see http://www.phpbb.com (the BB this forum runs on) and see how they organized and did their coding.

Browsing source code and being a bit creative can lead to many new doors being opened in your php learning.
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