Remote ODBC tables via MySQL

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Hi.

I've been using MySQL as a db engine behind a PHP application, and it has worked very well so far. Now I need to access some data held in a remote Oracle database and the only access I'm likely to get is via ODBC. I know the federated engine only works with MySQL, but is there a way of viewing these tables through MySQL? It would be much simpler (and more portable in the long run) to maintain an illusion for the app that it is looking at only one database. If there's no way to do this, will I need to set up a script that dumps data into the local database?

Thanks,

Iain.