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  • From: Robert Davis <rdavis AT unico.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] PHP and MSSQL API
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:13:48 -0600

Thanks. Ok to clarify. With --with-sybase the mssql_* are the exact
same as sybase_* (basically sybase renamed). So for instance I couldn't
call mssql_field_length unless I did --with-mssql. Right?

Robert Davis

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 00:05 +0100, Daniel Fazekas wrote:

> > The mssql_* functions however are _only_ for connecting to MSSQL via
> > the native libraries when using PHP on Windows.
>
> This is not true. PHP has for a very long time (as long back as 4.10
> and probably even earlier) provided a rough estimate of the mssql_*
> functions on UNIX when using either of the two sybase extensions, and
> since version 4.30 of PHP (released Dec 2002), as Robert correctly
> noted, even the mssql extension itself is available, with I believe
> provides exactly the same list of functions as available on Windows.
>
> As for Robert's question, I recommend reading this previous post of
> mine ;)
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2004q1/015610.html
>
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