SPSS and PHP/MySQL Integration

Question

I apologize up front for the broadness of this question, but I\'m wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers.

A friend\'s company uses SPSS for statistical data, s

Answer 1

SPSS has ODBC capabilities, as does MS SQL. Using ODBC you should be able to import all the appropriate tables to your MySQL db and hack away. A generic file dump (SPSS can export to a variety of file formats) would also work, but just includes a few extra steps.

In SPSS the gui for data export will be different depending on the version. Here is an example setup: http://www.indiana.edu/~statmath/stat/all/odbc/4.html#4b