>>>>>Hello All,
>>>>>
>>>>>I need to use ODBC on a VFP 9 database. This ODBC connection should be used from a PHP script.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have installed VFP 9 with SP1 (all ODBC drivers installed).
>>>>>
>>>>>However, I cannot create any DSN because ODBC claims that there is no Visual FoxPro ODBC driver installed.
>>>>>
>>>>>I insist that I need to do this with and ODBC connection (no ADO permitted).
>>>>>
>>>>>Can someone give me a hand on this?
>>>>>
>>>>>Pat
>>>>
>>>>Hi Pat,
>>>>How are you doing:) No one can give you a hand on that anymore:( VFPOLEDB is the way to go.
>>>>You might install latest ODBC driver downloading from MS site (included with MDAC 2.5) if you don't need to access VFP9 specific databases.
>>>>Cetin
>>>
>>>Hello Cetin,
>>>
>>>It's been quite a long time now! I haven't been touching VFP for a while : very busy with C projects and Web projects (involving PHP).
>>>
>>>Here's what I need to do: from a PHP script, I need to interact with VFP 9 data files. The client said that it needs to be working with ODBC and not with ADO (I don't know why).
>>>
>>>But whatever way I am using, it seems that I am always blocked somewhere along the road.
>>>
>>>Should you use ASP .NET, Cetin, how would you interact with VFP databases then (If I see how it works with ASP .NET, I will be able to extrapolate it to PHP)? Even If I need to use VFPOLEDB ...
>>>
>>>Pat
>>
>>Pat,
>>Didn't explicitly check each one. Also there were few lately on forums.msdn.com.
>>
>>Re: Connecting to VFP Data in ASP.NET Thread #1072118 Message #1082955
>>Re: C# BDF manipulation? Thread #1077139 Message #1077507
>>Re: Using OleDbParameters and FOXPRO MEMO Fields Thread #1026872 Message #1026953
>>Re: Easy in VFP !!! Thread #1032196 Message #1032287
>>
>>Cetin
>
>Hello Cetin,
>
>The first link if of great help. The others didn't bring much help ... BUT ... here we go Cetin ... based on what I just read I came up with the following code that works fine:
>
>

><?php   $hConn = new COM("ADODB.Connection");
>        $hConn->Open( "Provider=VFPOLEDB;Data Source=C:\manage2100\Sentanai\Data\;Collating Sequence=Machine" );
>
>        $rs = $hConn->Execute( "SELECT * FROM projects" );
>
>        while ( ! $rs->EOF )
>        {
>            echo $rs->fields[0] . " -- " . $rs->fields[1] . "<br />\n";
>            $rs->MoveNext();
>        }
>
>?>
>

>
>This code works perfectly on VFP 9 tables. Now it's a question of knowing more about the objects, methods, properties of ADO.
>
>Thanks Cetin ... your intervention was really worth it!
>
>Pat

Yes this is ADO. Check Re: How to update memo using adchunk and ADO/ODBC? Thread #996096 Message #996240 and if you can logon (I get server too busy) to forums.msdn.microsoft.com vfoxpro then check for a message with title sort of "VFPOLEDB 256 limit in foxpro memo". There there are a couple of ADO and ADO.Net codes.
PS: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=750871&SiteID=1
Cetin