FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Rafi Sheikh
> Sent: June 23, 2004 12:30 PM
> 
> I did browse through the userguide.  What
> I was confused about is the Sybase.  I thought I saw 
> somewhere in the mail
> archive that with 4.3 of PHP one can use with --mssql for it to work.

Well, that's really a PHP question.  I don't use PHP, but I think when you 
configure it, you can say ./configure --with-mssql.  Try "./configure --help 
| grep mssql".  

(For projects like FreeTDS and PHP, which use the GNU build system, each 
project has its own "configure" script that generates its makefiles.  The 
options you pass to configure determine what exactly those makefile do.  The 
--help option will list the options.)

> I admit I am so new that I have my pics in the dictionary 
> agianst the word 'green'!

        :-)

> Should I compile PHP also with --tsql also?  So far since 

No.  I hope the above made that clear.  

> Now I do have the need to go to MSSQL & Oracle 
> data bases via
> PHP, and I am thinking that I am in for a lot of pain!

That depends.  If learning is pain, yes.  For me, pain is learning something 
by trial and error that should be (or is) written down.  In this case, most 
of what you need to know is written down.  The challenge will be to master 
the informantion and the environment.  

> DO I NEED the unix odbc?

Not for FreeTDS.  You mentioned Oracle, which AIUI does use ODBC.  If you 
wind up using ODBC, you can use FreeTDS's ODBC driver.  But the sybase and 
mssql extensions don't use ODBC.  

HTH.  

--jkl

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