Install freetds on a RaQ4 to work with MS SQL and PHP

Brian Bruns camber at ais.org
Tue Apr 30 21:05:55 EDT 2002



Cassey,

You'll be happy to know that later PHPs automagically detect freetds and 
build the appropriate libraries.

Brian

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 April 2002 16:08, Del wrote:
> > I would like to make calls to an mssql server using php, I have tried to
> > get freetds set up but I dont seem to be having much success, the
> > instructions that are on the freetds site don't quite match how the RaQ4
> > (linux) is set up, plus I'm also stuck on how to re-compile php to work
> > with freetds.  Can anyone help?
> 
> It's not too difficult - we use some RAQ3 servers here,  though a very 
> customized linux configuration.
> 
> I have a custom build of Apache, FreeTDS, and PHP with --enable-sybase-ct on a 
> RAQ3, which performs reliably.
> 
> Unfortunately, rebuilding PHP is the most difficult, as you have to manually 
> edit the configure script to work with FreeTDS as opposed to the Sybase 
> library which it emulates/replaces.
> 
> It took me quite some time to get going, but now that I've done it it's pretty 
> straightforward.  Below follows instructions:
> 
> Remove PHP in whatever form it currently exists on the box.
> 




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