On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:13:54AM -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: > PHP uses a native set of functions to interact with MySQL, ODBC is not > needed > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php And for portability of code it's worth investigating PEAR[1] DB: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/core.db.php It offers a unified system of access for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle amongst others. G. [1] 'PHP Extension and Application Repository'. PEAR is to PHP as CPAN is to Perl