FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

> On 4 December 2001 8:11, Brian Bruns spaketh unto ye recipient:
> > See the FreeTDS Users Guide
> >
> > http://www.freetds.org/userguide/php.html
> 
> How do I determine what kinda option I need?  dblib, ctlib, or odbc?
> 
> I'm also using DB2, so I can't afford to break that.  What's the simplist 
> way 
> to test the connection?

DB2 will croak with dblib, namespace conflicts between the two.  

Ctlib is probably your best bet otherwise, it is fairly mature, although 
it needs so TLC to get built right.  (Side note: I checked in changes to 
PHP to resolve this, but who knows when it'll turn up in a released 
version of PHP).

ODBC support in freetds builds nicely with PHP but is still evolving.  
Long term this will probably be the preferred option, and is certainly 
atractive if you care about porting scripts between different DBMS 
systems.  It may however have a few glitches that need resolving (working 
hard to get everything in place by the 0.53 release).

Cheers,

Brian