I tried this: <code> <?PHP odbc_connect("DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=" . str_replace("/", "\\", $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]) . "\_database\mydatabase.mdb", "", ""); ?> </code> I got this error: ----------------------------------------------- PHP Warning: odbc_connect(): SQL error: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]General error Unable to open registry key 'Temporary (volatile) Jet DSN for process 0x3f40 Thread 0x2700 DBC 0x973dac Jet'., SQL state S1000 in SQLConnect in E:\web\localgirlso\htdocs\test\database.php on line 2 -----------------------------------------------