# Is it possible to create a shopping cart system by linking PHP and MS Access?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-shopping-cart-system-by-linking-php-and-ms-access/34394
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [November 1, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-shopping-cart-system-by-linking-php-and-ms-access/34394 "2003-11-01T15:38:24Z")
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### Author: ![bigbadmilkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc348/32.png) [@bigbadmilkman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bigbadmilkman)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-shopping-cart-system-by-linking-php-and-ms-access/34394/1 "2003-11-01T15:38:24Z")

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Hi I am about to create a shopping cart system for my company. I am quite familiar with MS Access, therefore I was wondering if it is possible to link PHP with MS Access. My system will have the following

-A shopping cart  
-A software interface (the the staff in the company will use to check new orders)  
-A database of the actual products

I don’t want to use MySQL because i am not very familiar with it, I have been thinking about using ASP…but i am not sure, does anyone have any ideas? Also how hard is it to do what i want to do?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-shopping-cart-system-by-linking-php-and-ms-access/34394/2 "2003-11-02T08:14:28Z")

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in a word: yes.

However, it would probably be more difficult to use Access than to learn MySQL, and PHP is kind of “built for” MySQL.

You could use ASP… I don’t know ASP, so I can’t comment on that, except that ASP and MS Access are a more common combination than PHP and MS Access.

Also, Access is quite underpowered when it comes to serving lots of users. MySQL is a lot more powerful.

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-shopping-cart-system-by-linking-php-and-ms-access/34394/3 "2003-11-02T17:36:01Z")

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agreed, however i have never had any problems using Access (except for that \*\*\*\* lock file) 🙂