FreeTDS Development Group

[Daniel Fazekas <fdsubs AT t-online.hu>]

On Aug 3, 2005, at 15:51, Sleepite wrote:

> I've installed FreeTDS and linked it up to PHP fine, it's excellent  
> software
> and runs perfectly! But now I'm also trying to install the GD graphics
> library into PHP and it's breaking My FreeTDS connection.

Gee, now that's odd. It should prove interesting to find out what  
could cause such a weird problem. I never had a problem myself using  
the mssql extension alongside gd. Or even sybase_ct.

It's not unheard of to have a problem with two PHP extensions  
clashing with each other and breaking at compile time or being unable  
to load them both at the same time.
Only in your case, as I understand, both the compilation and the  
loading of the extensions went well.

Is this some kind of a Linux system? Which PHP and FreeTDS versions?

Here are some things to try:

1. Try compiling the extensions as shared.
eg. change
> -with-sybase-ct=/usr/local/freetds
to --with-sybase-ct=shared,/usr/local/freetds

>  --with-gd=/usr/local
to --with-gd=shared,/usr/local

Don't forget to load the dynamically shared extensions somewhere then.
One way is adding lines such as
extension=gd.so
extension=sybase_ct.so
to your php.ini file.

2. PHP comes with its own improved and customized copy of GD. It's  
discouraged to use another copy of gd already on your system. So try

--with-gd
or
--with-gd=shared

3. Check what the FreeTDS logs say. Enabling logging in an Apache  
environment may prove to be a challenge and is left up to you to  
experiment with it if you really want to. :) It's easy to just use  
your command line CLI version of php however:

TDSDUMP=stdout TDSDUMPCONFIG=stdout php /path/to/your/php/script.php

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fds