This is the easiest way I know how to get data from a MySQL database to and Microsoft Access database. Its not automatic, but its by far the best way to move tables from MySQL to Access. A single function generates a CSV file (with Access string escaping) that can be easily downloaded and "imported" into Access.

By : woodys

<?

function mysql2access($dbconnection, $tablename,$outfile)
{
//this function produces a CSV text file (with Microsoft string escaping) that can be processed by Microsoft Access's data import funcitonality

//parameters:
// $dbconnection: this is a the MySQL connection handle returned by mysql_connect()
// $tablename: CSV files can only handle one table at a time, so we pass the table name here
// $outfile: output filename (remember that the subdir needs permissions that PHP can write to) (i.e. CHMOD 777)


//open the the output file
$fp=fopen($outfile,"w");

$res=mysql_query("select * from $tablename",$dbconnection);
$nr=mysql_num_rows($res);

//enumerate field types (and buffer them in an array for performance reasons)
$nf=mysql_num_fields($res);
for ($b=0;$b<$nf;$b++)
{
$c=mysql_field_type($res,$b);

switch($c)
{

case "int":
case "real":
case "unknown":
case "timestamp":
case "numeric":
case "decimal":
default:
$is_numeric[$b]=true; break;

case "string":
case "date":
case "datetime":
case "time":
case "blob":
case "char":
case "varchar":
case "text":
$is_numeric[$b]=false; break;
}
}



for ($a=0;$a<$nr;$a++)
{
$row=mysql_fetch_row($res);

for ($b=0;$b<$nf;$b++)
{
$c=mysql_field_type($res,$b);

if ($is_numeric[$b]==false)
{
$s=access_escape_string(strval($row[$b]));
fputs($fp,"\"$s\"");
}
else
{
fputs($fp,strval($row[$b]));
}

if ($b<($nr-1)) fputs($fp,", ");

}

fputs($fp,"\n");
}

fclose($fp);

}

function access_escape_string($s)
{
$s2="";
$sl=strlen($s);

for ($a=0;$a<$sl;$a++)
{
$c=substr($s,$a,1);

if ($c=="\"") $c="\"\"";

$s2.=$c;
}

return $s2;
}

?>

/* example */
<?

include("mysql2access.h");

//mysql2access needs the db connection handle
$con=mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
$db=mysql_select_db("dbname",$con);

mysql2access($con,"promo","/home/sites/site90/web/backup/promo.txt");
mysql2access($con,"orders","/home/sites/site90/web/backup/promo.txt");
mysql2access($con,"users2","/home/sites/site90/web/backup/users2.txt");
mysql2access($con,"mailinglist","/home/sites/site90/web/backup/mailinglist.txt");

?>

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