We have a Linux box with Apache, running PHP. We have a regular Desktop computer in the network running Quickbooks Enterprise Edition 9.0.

I am trying to build a custom web application hosted on the Linux box that would be able to talk to Quickbooks.

I'm new to Quickbooks, which makes it hard for me. While looking around I found many technologies, none of them looked simple. Before I go ahead deep into it, I wondered if anyone has experience with this and could advise me on that first step.

I heard of Quickbooks SDK, QODBC, Web Connector, etc... Clarifications on those technologies and other availables would be very nice. Also keeping in mind that the PHP code will be running in a different computer (linux).

Thanks

PS. I know there are already other posts related to Quickbooks, but they were either not clear enough, or involved the web code running on the same machine as Quickbooks.

Originally asked by: nute on Stack Overflow