Ms access

I’ve just started doing databases in MS Access, for a 6th form course work. My only problem is the program confuses me, i much prefere using PHP and MySQL. Is there a way to incourperate these into Access? I’m gonna try and get away with doing an online database, the brief for my course work doesn’t actually say i have to use Access for my databases. Any ideas? Mabey a tutorial would help me with Access. A link would be greatly appreciated. Thanks…