RE: [PHP-DB] PHP to MS SQL Package

From: Olavi ivask [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:57 PM
To: Wei, Alice J.
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] PHP to MS SQL Package

Hi,

you need to install "freetds" before compiling php.

compile php:

./configure [--with-apxs --with-mysql...]

You actually meant mssql, right? I am getting mine to connect to mssql, and not mysql.

--with-sybase=/usr/local/freetds
make
make install

Olavi Ivask

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:14 -0400, Wei, Alice J. wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I am currently using a Linux box with Fedora 9.0 and I am trying to connect PHP to a MS SQL database. All the permissions on the MS SQL database is up to date and accurate, but I consistently get errors that say
>
> PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function mssql_connect() in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/create_new_entry_master.php on line 20
>
> I have looked into the options of using FreeBSD, as suggested on the http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mssql-connect.php#83196,  but I am not sure if I could use it since I don't use a Windows Machine to run my PHP.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Alice
> ======================================================
> Alice Wei
> MIS 2009
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University Bloomington
> [email protected]
>