My brother uses an application called Kennel Connection – http://www.kennelconnection.com/screen.html that has a Microsoft Access backend.
He wants me to create come reports and display them on a webpage. I know some PHP but freely(well maybe not freely) admit that I use dreamweaver as a crutch to speed along my php development. Most of my experience in PHP is based on a mysql backend.
The database has about 20 tables though only about 5 are used on a regular basis. Is there any reason I couldn’t import those 5 tables in to mysql and create linked tables inside the application pointing to those mysql tables? In the short term I would just port the key tables with the longer term goal of porting all the tables to mysql?
My biggest concern would be related not knowing if the application would have any hiccups writing to a linked mysql table rather then an internal access table. Anyone have an experience with this?
You would probably have to rewrite any queries at the very least. It does not seem likely that you need real-time data, and it is not difficult to write a query that updates a MYSQL table from MS Access. This could be run either through Task Scheduler, or manually.