FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2015-03-03 16:45 GMT+00:00 Thomas, Christopher (LLU) <cwthomas AT llu.edu>:
> Hello,
>
> My organization uses PHP extensively to develop applications. I like to say 
> we run a LAMP stack ... Linux Apache MSSQL and PHP :). Even though I can't 
> write any C code, I always try to keep tabs on the development of PHP, 
> FreeTDS and other technologies we need to do our jobs. Today I ran across 
> the  initiative (http://gophp7.org/gophp7-ext/ ) . Their goal it to get the 
> extension writers to update their code for PHP7 before PHP7 ships. While 
> looking around, it seems to me that the mssql extension has not been 
> updated yet. It looks like it has been confirmed by 
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/removal_of_dead_sapis_and_exts as it has been 
> removed from the PHP code repository (master branch, but the latest release 
> branch still has it so, mssql will not be in the next minor or major 
> release). Is there any way that one of the FreeTDS maintainers can look at 
> the MSSQL PHP extension and make sure it works with PHP7?
>
>
> Chris
>

No, there is no plan to support external software. However there are
different extensions you can use that will be supported in PHP7 like
pdo_dblib or odbc. You should probably convert your software to use
these extensions or write some small wrapper in PHP7 to emulate old
mssql extensions using another extension.

Frediano