FreeTDS Development Group

[Robert Gonzalez <robert AT robert-gonzalez.com>]

This is a write up that I link to often when it comes to connecting to MS
SQL Server with PHP. In the spirit of full disclosure, I wrote this article,
but it has helped me out tremendously in getting PHP <--> SQL Server setups
rolling quickly. Your paths may be different because of your environment,
but the concepts should be very similar in nature.

http://www.robert-gonzalez.com/2009/02/18/building-the-php-ms-sql-server-extension-from-source-on-ubuntu-810/

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/9/16 Deven Hariyani <devenh AT gmail.com>
>
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I've spent the last two days familiarizing myself with the documentation
> > and
> > steps for installing freetds. The good news is that the documentation on
> > the
> > website has been helpful and I was able to download the source, build the
> > executables, and test the connection using tsql. Currently, my
> installation
> > is located in the default directory */usr/local/freetds* and my conf file
> > with sql server information is located in */usr/local/freetds/etc*, but
> now
> > I am confused how am I supposed to tell XAMP, which is located in
> > /Applications/XAMP to use freetds?
> >
> > My XAMP installation has a freetds.conf file located in
> > /Applications/XAMP/xampfiles/etc
> >
> > One more thing... when I did some google searches I found some threads
> that
> > discussed a mssql.so module which I am supposed to put into my php.ini
> > file.
> > My php.ini file is located in /Applications/XAMP/xampfiles/etc, but I
> > believe the mssql.so is for something else not related to freetds, am I
> > correct? If so, what are the major differences between mssql.so and
> > freetds?
> >
> > Thanks for all of your wonderful help!
> >
>
> mssql.so is a PHP module which links PHP and FreeTDS together !
>
> freddy77
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