<P><FONT face=arial size=2>After a dozen questions and many late nights...this tutorial finally address the problem i had dwindled it down to...A BUG in the code!!<BR>...............<BR>Many thanks!!! the only problem I had is my path needed to point up another level for the 'adodb' folder (keep it in the root , on the server)<BR>and the Connection folder was a direct path as such:<BR>.....................<BR>require("../adodb/adodb.inc.php";<BR>&nbsp; require("Connections\connCompass.php";<BR>.....................<BR>I am not sure why the code is sketchy in it's defaults on my box, but after these changes...it does work.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=arial size=2>The 'adodb' folder along with the 'Connections' folder are in the clients folder- in this case 'compass' - so the original path was inplied as :<BR>.............<BR>require("./adodb/adodb.inc.php";<BR>&nbsp; require("./Connections/connCompass.php";<BR>.............<BR>so, the errors retured where "not able to find file..." which was the adodb and the connections folder.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=arial size=2>after changing, it worked. any suggesstions?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=arial size=2>Again Thank You for helping me through this-great tutorial!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=arial size=2>--sc</FONT></P>

<P><FONT face=arial>You're more than welcome !</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=arial>I'm glad that this tutorial managed to resolve your initial problem of connecting to the access database.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=arial>As for the include files, did you reset the include_path in your php.ini ? If you didn't then the reason that you are having to put an absolute path is because you have begun the declaration of an absolute path there.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=arial>Hope this helps,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=arial>Tim</FONT></P>