[EvilDeveloper]

Help me in connecting to other DBMS like Access, SQL Server 2000 by using PHP

[NeverMind]

either with ODBC or COM
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.uodbc.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php

look at users' comments, they have some useful tips there

[digioz]

Here is a useful tutorial from phpfreaks.com on connecting to a Microsoft Access Database through PHP:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/print.php?c...rial&tut_id=61

[moronovich]

if you are advanced enough in php, you can try john lim's adodb. its the most robust database abstraction ever made (and it's fast).
anyway, if you're interested in php new feature, you can try pdo. its the candidate for all database extension substitute (ext/mysql, ext/oci8, ext/pgsql, etc)