Question

I need to access some data from an MS Access database and retrieve some data from it using PHP.

I’ve looked around the web, and found the following line which seems to correctly connect to the database:

$conn->Open("DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=C:\wamp\www\data\MYDB.mdb");

However, I have tried to retrieve some data in the following way:

$query = "SELECT pageid FROM pages_table";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $query);

$amount_of_pages = 0;

if(mysqli_num_rows($result) <= 0)
  echo "No results found.";
else
    while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
        $amount_of_pages++;

And was presented with the following errors:

Warning: mysqli_query() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, object given in C:\wamp\www\data\index.php on line 19

Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, null given in C:\wamp\www\data\index.php on line 23
No results found.

I don’t really understand the connection to the Access database, is there something I should be doing differently?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

I don’t think you can use MySQLi with anything other than a MySQL db. You’ll probably need to use an ODBC connection.