FreeTDS Development Group

["Myers Carpenter" <myers AT fil.org>]

>I'm using FreeTDS with PHP4 trying to connect to SQL Server 7. The 
>libraries are working fine as I've written a lot of C code using them. 
>I've compiled freetds into PHP according to the instructions. However, 
>with PHP, every call to mssql_connect fails. It's as if it can't see my 
>interfaces file (my only guess anyway), but I do have:
>
>sybase.interface_file = "/usr/local/freetds/interfaces"
>
>in my php.ini file. Might anyone be able to offer me further guidance?

Have you tried?:
<?php

putenv("SYBASE=/usr/local/freetds");

?>

This may not work with safe mode on in php.

The other idea is to set the Enviroment var in Apache's config.

myers