FreeTDS Development Group

[Gerry <gerry AT ship-to-order.com>]

I've solved my problem and I thought I'd post the solution here in case 
others had the same problem. The problem was that in the PHP call to 
dbopen, it was calling the DBM version of dbopen rather than the FreeTDS 
version. Perhaps this only happens if you compile in certain other 
options with PHP that use the DBM calls. In dblib.c I see that there is 
an #ifdef DBMFIX which renames dbopen to tdsdbopen if it's defined. 
However, rather than just renaming the function to tdsdbopen, I left 
dbopen untouched and made a new function tdsdbopen which does the same 
thing as dbopen. I didn't just want to rename it because I didn't want 
to break other programs that were already working and calling dbopen. 
Then in the PHP source, I changed all the calls to dbopen to tdsdbopen. 
Have others not experienced this same problem? Seems like it would be a 
common problem.

Gerry

> 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?