[freetds] PHP and DSN-less Connection Strings

Jon Doblados jon.doblados at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 04:21:51 EST 2005


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:32:45 +0100, Joerg Behrens <behrens at takenet.de> wrote:

> That means your php version is build without ODBC support or the extension isnt loaded during
> startup. Most current Linux distributions use shared extensions which can be enabled in the php.ini
> or loading during runtime with the dl('foo.so') function.
> 
> extension_dir= /path/to/extensions
> extension=foo.so

Ah yes, I figured that much. I tried copying
/usr/local/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so (from freetds FAQ) to
/usr/lib/php/extensions only to find out that I don't have
libtdsodbc.so, as I only see libtds.so.
 
> But have you read www.php.net/mssql before starting using ODBC? PHP have mssql support based on
> freetds. I gives you a bunch of functions like http://www.irixworld.net/php/overview.php?ext=mssql.
> To check if the extensions available run a phpinfo() and search for the mssql info table. An example
> can found under http://www.irixworld.net/ (search for mssql).

I'm very much concerned about using PHP's mssql APIs because this will
mean recoding dozens of files. For now, I'm stuck with using
odbc_connect. I also noticed unixODBC on my server. Should freetds
work in tandem with unixODBC or that's an entirely different game?

Thank you so much.

Regards, 

Jon

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