[RLUG] Linux-MSSQL

[Harry Clark]

I read with horror and fascination the long thread from the summer about
calling MSSQL from Linux/PHP. From this and other discussions on the net
there seem to be 2 or 3 paths (MSDB2, ?), all of which require rebuilding
PHP with the mssql option enabled? I ask about this because I queried my PHP
setup with Kyle's little script and the config answers show --without-mysql
and --without-mssql. Yet there is a mysql section in the config info (and
mysql is installed, for other purposes). But not a mssql section.  There is
also --with-unixODBC=/shared/usr and later --without-unixODBC in the config
info. I assume the last option prevailed? This was from a package on a
Fedora Core 5 distro.

Must I absolutely categorically rebuild PHP? And do I want to select all the
options in my current config list on the build (except with changes I want)?
I am able to connect to the MSSQL box with tsql from the command line, but
not with isql, which tells me the ODBC is failing; freetds is installed and
I set up an ODBC data source from the instructions in the discussion. I'm
now looking for the freetds logs...any comments very welcome. Thanks

Best regards, Harry Clark    harry.clark <atta> knovalent <dottie> com
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