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Epsilon · 05-20-2004, 03:04 PM

I'm fairly good with PHP/MySQL by now. Well, I still use the online documentation a lot for reference, but I get by just fine and I've done some good sized applications.

But I may have a project coming up in a couple weeks where someone is going to want me to develop a member registration system for them on a MS Access database, which I've never done. They're okay with PHP, but they don't want MySQL because they already have a small Access DB on their Windows web server (yuk!) that they will want to keep, and have me expand on it.

So my dilemma is whether to try to learn Access over the next two weeks or turn down the job. Does anyone have experience programming with PHP/Access? I'm wondering how similar it is to MySQL. If they're fairly similar I think I could do it. But if Access is way different (in terms of programming syntax), I might just turn it down.

Any ideas?

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Epsilon Regular Contributor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 127	MySQL vs MS Access I'm fairly good with PHP/MySQL by now. Well, I still use the online documentation a lot for reference, but I get by just fine and I've done some good sized applications. But I may have a project coming up in a couple weeks where someone is going to want me to develop a member registration system for them on a MS Access database, which I've never done. They're okay with PHP, but they don't want MySQL because they already have a small Access DB on their Windows web server (yuk!) that they will want to keep, and have me expand on it. So my dilemma is whether to try to learn Access over the next two weeks or turn down the job. Does anyone have experience programming with PHP/Access? I'm wondering how similar it is to MySQL. If they're fairly similar I think I could do it. But if Access is way different (in terms of programming syntax), I might just turn it down. Any ideas? __________________ --Epsilon--