[thelist] setting up freetds or odbc to connect to a ms sql server?

[Danny Shepherd]

Hi,

When I needed to connect to an MSSQL server I used FreeTDS.

Grab the latest version, compile it and setup the config file.
Compile PHP **** --with-sybase-ct **** make sure you use sybase-ct
as --with-sybase will not work (I'm speaking for experience here!)

Then you're pretty much good to go.

HTH

Danny.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Phillips" <ben at inchima.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: [thelist] setting up freetds or odbc to connect to a ms sql server?


> we are trying to connect to a remote ms sql server using php, and are
> not sure which is the best way to go about it.
>
> i understand from the following article:
> http://phpbuilder.net/columns/alberto20000919.php3
> that we can either use freetds or odbc to talk to the ms sql server. we
> don't yet have root access to our server (but will do soon), so we are
> looking for a method that doesn't require recompiling php. is there one?
>
> the site has to go live tomorrow, so i'm sweating a bit here! the client
> has dumped this on us at the last minute, but we don't want to lose them
> so my boss said it would be no problem...
>
> i'm no apache or linux expert, and i don't want to bugger our server up,
> so does anybody have any tips that could help us get through this as
> painlessly as possible?
>
> thanks,
> benji
> inchima.com
>
>
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