Microsoft SQL Server Functions

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swaldester at gmail dot com
18-Jul-2007 03:03


For all of you connecting to MS SQL Server using freeTDS, having trouble to log on with a domain login:



Add the line:

putenv('TDSVER=70');



just before calling mssql_connect()



This worked for me with a MS SQL Server 2K Ent.



Thank you elmer !

post at wmm dot no
03-Jul-2007 06:48


Having trouble connecting to a MS SQL Server from Windows server with Apache + PHP, or some other server-configuration?



As Tom at mazzotta dot com wrote further down on this page; too old MDAC in Windows may be your problem.



Here is a summary for those working on Windows-plattform:



1. Update your Microsoft MDAC (search for Microsoft Data Access Components on www.microsoft.com). Some older Microsoft servers (or workstations) contain old and crappy MDAC-installations. This solved our problem after two days of work.. 



2. Make sure ntwdblib.dll (version 8.00.194) is in the correct place(s). I only placed it in Apache bin directory and it worked fine, but apparently some Microsoft installations need it in several locations.. this is indeed very confusing!



3. You may have to set mssql.secure_connection = off in your php.ini



4. Make sure needed ports are configured in your firewall.



Hope this helps - now, back to coffee!

nmax at libero dot it
26-Jun-2007 12:41


About the ntwdblib.dll, I can say that on Windows 2003 Server with Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.2.3 I have repalced the one present in PHP folder with the version 8.00.194 of the same.



Putting the dll only in PHP folder and configuring in php.ini the variable mssql.secure_connection = Off mssql_connect() works!

James at thetallfamily dot com
21-Jun-2007 07:36


MSSQL doesn't have a real_escape_string function like MYSQL does, which can lead to error when inserting or updating data that contains a ' (single quote). 



To prevent this, replace all ' (single quotes) by TWO ' (single quotes) '' which SQL server will interpret as an escaped '.

Also you may want to remove any \' \" escape sequences that are translated from any FORM output into the PHP $_POST variables.



Hope this helps someone.

James

hector dot spencer at gmail dot com
18-Jun-2007 12:46


I'm really grateful for saving me hours, if not days in trying to make PHP work with SQLServer database, Thanks a lot and I'll make sure to make a not so overwhelming and friendly tutorial for spanish speakers. Thanks a lot mate!

Roy Maarssen
07-May-2007 08:47


My problem was that I've loaded the ntwdblib.dll (8.00.194) into the php directory, but it also have to be placed in the bin directory of Apache.



I hope this will save you some time searching for the solution, if you encounter the same problem.



I'm using SQL 2005 Express Edition on Windows Vista Enterprise with Apache.

lostaircryptic at hotmail dot co dot uk
30-Apr-2007 10:34


MAXIMUM COLUMN LENGTH OF 30 CHARACTERS....



This restriction was solved by using the following techniques.



First create a test which detects this to be the problem and then self correct it.



For the times that this is a problem rename the columns to an unique column name which is 30 characters exactly in length.  This column must be unique compares to the others, so use the MD5 Hashed value.  Since MD5 hashed values are 32 character HEX values, convert this to a toggle Hex value giving an exact maximum length of 31 characters.  Prepend a character to the start to ensure that it falls within Column naming regulations.



When the data is obtained, check for the hashed values against a check array and replace where neccessary.



Although complex it may sound, the method has been tried and successfully works, thus allowing columns of greater length than that of 30 characters.



I had this situation within Linux as well as Windows (XAMPP), so this solution was ultimate in solving the problem.



You can run the detection as a constant or automatically.  However it is best to use a constant for efficiency reasons.



Any questions, just email me.

vbchris at gmail dot com
24-Apr-2007 08:22


My previous post although seemed to solve the problem of the connection randomly refusing to connect, it didn't. This however did. I created a loop to create a few connections and noticed it was always the first connection that failed. So I wrote this to keep trying to connect until it eventually does.



<?php

while(!$connection){

    @$connection = mssql_connect($cfg['server'],$cfg['username'],$cfg['password']);

}

$db = mssql_select_db($cfg['database'],$connection) or die("Error selecting the database");

?>

Jason {at} RoundtopRiders {dot} com
10-Apr-2007 06:54


I struggled with this for a few days and finally got it figured out. I'm running Windows 2003 Server, PHP 5.2, Apache 2.2 and MSSQL Server 2005.



(1) Set 'msssql.secure_connection = On' in the PHP.ini file

(2) Download the correct ntwdblib.dll file (version 8.00.194)



Copy this to:



C:/Windows/System32

<server root>/php

<server root>/apache/bin



(I would just do a search for this file and replace it anywhere you find it...)



(3) Make sure TCP/IP and Named Pipes are enabled in the SQL Configuration tool.



Hope this saves somebody a few hours.

deyura at gmail dot com
10-Apr-2007 10:06


FreeTDS is work!!!



But after install you shoul add in config file

1. Add in freetds.conf client cahrset:

[TDS_NAME_TO_CONNECT]

host = 192.168.0.1

port = 1433

tds version = 8.0

client charset = CP1251



2. For datetime add in locales.conf in [default]:

date format = %Y-%m-%d %I:%M:%S.%z



3. restart apache



4. In your php-script you should connect to [TDS_NAME_TO_CONNECT]

mssql_connect('TDS_NAME_TO_CONNECT', 'php', '123');

deyura at gmail dot com
10-Apr-2007 10:05


FreeTDS is work!!!



But after install you shoul add in config file

1. Add in freetds.conf client cahrset:

[TDS_NAME_TO_CONNECT]

host = 192.168.0.1

port = 1433

tds version = 8.0

client charset = CP1251



2. For datetime add in locales.conf in [default]:

date format = %Y-%m-%d %I:%M:%S.%z



3. restart apache



4. In your php-script you should connect to [TDS_NAME_TO_CONNECT]

mssql_connect('TDS_NAME_TO_CONNECT', 'php', '123');

vbchris at gmail dot com
06-Apr-2007 03:56


If your having problems with  your script at random times refusing to connect to the database. Try editing php.ini and uncommenting this line.



mssql.max_procs = -1



This solved the problem for me after 3 days of pulling my hair out wondering why it kept refusing to connect!

ziggurism at gmail dot com
30-Jan-2007 06:53


On *nix, of course you need to add extension=mssql.so to your php.ini.  Obvious, but it took me a while to figure that out.

tom at mazzotta dot com
18-Jan-2007 11:38


FINNALLY got PHP to connect to MS SQL Server. Even though I read through the multitue of comments about ntwdblib.dll, etc., I still couldn't get it to work. The key was to load the Microsoft MDAC (2.8) on my IIS/PHP server. If your environement does not use the web server to host SQL as well, you will probably need to install the MDAC. My guess is that an installation of SQL Server (and/or just the client tools) on the webserver will automatically include the MDAC and you would not experience this problem.

phpnet at pginet dot com
08-Jan-2007 08:35


This took me a while to figure out, so I may as well pass it along to save somebody time.



If you are having trouble connecting with a DSNless connection using unixodbc with freetds, don't forget to specify the TDS_Version in your connection string.



Example (8.0 is for SQL Server 2000 exclusively):



$dsn = "DRIVER=FreeTDS;TDS_Version=8.0; TRACE=No; SERVER=someserver; PORT=someport; DATABASE=somedb; UID=somelogin; PWD=somepassword";

be_misc_01 at flowbuzz dot com
20-Dec-2006 09:06


Couple of notes:

When setting this up, you might notice that the unixODBC isql command likes the password wrapped in single quotes:

isql -v MyDSN MyUserID 'MyPa$$W0rd'



Additionally, if you happen to have a dollar-sign in your password (or username, or DSN) -- you must avoid using double quotes.  This is a normal PHP gotcha, but worth mentioning.

Won't work: 

$con = mssql_connect ("MyDSN", "MyUserID", "MyPa$$W0rd");



Will work (single quotes):

$con = mssql_connect ("MyDSN", "MyUserID", 'MyPa$$W0rd');

davinel_lu_linvega at hotmail dot com
07-Dec-2006 11:38


About using the MSSQL XML field-type, for Win32 users,  :



1. The most simple way would be to



"SELECT [xmlfield] FROM [table]"



But this triggers the following error :



"Unicode data in a Unicode-only collation or ntext data cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or ODBC version 3.7 or earlier. (severity 16)"



2. Well, let's just read [xmlfield] as a VARCHAR.



"SELECT CAST([xmlfield] AS VARCHAR(8000)) FROM [table]"



will truncate to the 255 first characters, due to the API limitation. (see the marc at NOSPAM dot durdin dot net note)



3. So woud not that be appropriate to use the TEXT field-type ?



"SELECT CAST([xmlfield] AS TEXT) FROM [table]"



triggers :



"Explicit conversion from data type xml to text is not allowed. (severity 16)"



4. So you cannot read the VARCHAR nor the XML, and you cannot transform the XML into TEXT. In order to finally read that XML field-type, you may use this trick :



"SELECT CAST(CAST([xmlfield] AS VARCHAR(8000)) AS TEXT) FROM [table]"

KamiKazie at comcast dot net
22-Nov-2006 03:01


I have found that a Windows Webserver cannot connect to a Microsoft SQL Database if the webserver is running Microsoft SQL Server Agent.  It gives connection and undefined function errors.  Hope this helps some people.

JinXy at skylinetop dot com
15-Nov-2006 04:37


I had major problems trying to get the msssql extension loaded.  The following fixed it for me:  



1. Make sure the ntwdblib.dll file located in system32/ on the Database server is copied to system32 on the PHP serving server.

2. Uncomment the extension in the php.ini file.

3. Add the following to the registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP]

"IniFilePath"="C:\\PHP"

This tells PHP where to find the php.ini

(This is what my resolution to my problem was - only after some time did I find some reference to it).

4. Restart IIS

anders jenbo(located)pc denmark
03-Nov-2006 08:32


The 3 major headaicks I had while setting up MS SQL 2005, php 5.1.6 (apache 2.2 server) on Vista RC1 and getting them to comunicate.



TCP/IP and "Named Pipes Protocol" had to be enabled in the MS SQL Server. You do this in the Surface Area Configuration tool.



MS SQL 2005 should be set to mix mode login. Unless you use NT authentication in php.ini.

You can do this in duing install if you select advanced options.

If it's already installed you will have to use the SQL management Studio (properties->securety).



At first the php_mssql.dll didn't load properly (wan't showing up under phpinfo()) and gave no error message at startup, the cause of this was the ntwdblib.dll that came with php (273KB) replacing it with the one that came with MS SQL 2005 (269KB) fixed the issuse, incase you haven't installed MS SQL on your machine you can also find it on the net.

php at scrunch dot net
19-Sep-2006 04:36


With WinXP client, connecting to SQL Server 2005, via PHP on the command line (CLI).



If the serverr was installed with support for multiple instances, you can not connect to it, even when attempting to connect to the default instance.



Replace the ntwdblib.dll (7.00.839) provided by PHP with the one from SQL Server 2000 (8.00.194).



Otherwise you will see this message, which is not very helpful:

Warning: mssql_connect(): Unable to connect to server: ...

jorrit at ncode dot nl
21-Jul-2006 01:14


To connect to SQL Server 2005 you can download ntwdblib.dll from http://www.webzila.com/?wz=dll. Pick the smallest file there, the other one is French.

antoinehurkmans at hotmail dot com
11-Jul-2006 12:40


"if you are looking for the equivalent of  mysql_list_tables for mssql, try this..."



Please use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views for this. Using the system tables for anything other than the occasional ad-hoc query is not recommended. See MSDN for more details.

Bart
22-May-2006 04:46


Another helpful hint in regards to SQL Server 2005 Express:



Make sure your SQL Server is set to  "SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode". By default it is NOT.



1) Open "SQL Server Management Studio Express"

2) Right-click server ("machinename\sqlexpress") and select "Properties".

3) Select "Security"

4) Select "SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode"

5) Restart SQL Server.

phil at hilands dot c-spam-om
19-May-2006 09:13


mssql.datetimeconvert



using freebsd and freetds I ran into the dates month being rolled back

01 jan would be 00

12 dec would be 11 nov



removed

ini_set('mssql.datetimeconvert',false);

default setting is to 1 or true on the servers config

and the date issue I ran into was resolved



I don't know how the mssql.datetimeconvert setting works but if you're getting a roll back in dates might be worth making sure its on.



using ini_get when dealing with scripts that like to modify ini settings will save a headache if you use phpinfo() like me



*side note with the same settings in freetds php apache etc on a debian load I didn't have this issue even with mssql.datetimeconvert off

thnkloud9 at aol dot com
02-Mar-2006 09:54


I had major latency problems with DB connections using php_mssql.dll without the client tools.  I found that by default it was using TCP/IP as the default connection method.   Installing the SQL Server client tools and using the Client Network Utility to change my settings to use named pipes resolved this issue.  You can use the Client Utility to set up a named pipes server alias and reference that in your connect string.

jimmy dot cartrette at gmail dot com
22-Feb-2006 03:56


"Note: DBLib is obsolete and only supports SQL Server 4.x, 6.5, 7.0 and 8.x. "



Well, ntwdblib.dll is not distributed with SQL Native Client 2005 versions anymore, but it is what you need to use the mssql family functions with php. The distributed 7.x version with php does not work, but if you download the 8.x version distributed with SQL 2000 versions and replace it in your php directory, you can suddenly use mssql functions with no problems.

support at realone dot com
08-Dec-2005 04:04


Actually, it's xtype, not type. So the the correct query would be something like:



SELECT name FROM sysobjects WHERE xtype = 'u' [ORDER BY whatever]

info at pkcom do t co dot uk
01-Nov-2005 11:47


if you are looking for the equivalent of  mysql_list_tables for mssql, try this:



######## Listing table names

$query=mssql_query ( "select * from SYSOBJECTS where TYPE='U' order by NAME" , [connection resource]);

while ($row=mssql_fetch_row ( $query )){

    echo "$row[0]<br>";

}

#########################

erwin_nospam_moller at xs4all dot nl
06-Oct-2005 11:43


php5isapi / w2000 / ISS5



If you use the above configuration (isapi) and follow the suggestion to deselect 'cache isapi application' to avoid 100% processor usage, you might end up with an oocasional error:



The remote procedure call failed and did not execute. 



It happened to me every third visit to the same page.

RE-enabling caching resolved the issue.



M$ has an article about this in their knowledgebase, stating that this option should always be selected and is only there for developmentpurposes. (undocumented feature. :P)



Deselecting this option forces IIS to reload ALL relevant dll's every time a request is received in memory, also VB/ASP.

Erick Robertson
20-Aug-2005 01:58


Some helpful functions.  Pretty simple, but very useful.



function mssql_begin_transaction() {

  mssql_query("BEGIN TRANSACTION");

}



function mssql_commit() {

  mssql_query("COMMIT");

}



function mssql_rollback() {

  mssql_query("ROLLBACK");

}



function mssql_insert_id() {

  $id = "";



  $rs = mssql_query("SELECT @@identity AS id");

  if ($row = mssql_fetch_row($rs)) {

    $id = trim($row[0]);

  }

  mssql_free_result($rs);



  return $id;

}

vangoethem at hotmail.com
10-Aug-2005 12:47


I had problems related to VARCHAR limitation to 255 characters (INSERT/UPDATE works, SELECT was truncated) using freetds driver (Linux platform).



By upgrading the TDS protocol to 8.0 (see freetds config file), I fixed the problem.

hbzxc at 126 dot com
27-Jun-2005 09:14


I am trying to connect to SQL Server 2000 from PHP

I bumped to following warning:

Warning: mssql_connect(): Unable to connect to server: SERVER\Portal

....... on line 5



on line 5 there is:

$db_connect = mssql_connect('SERVER\Portal', 'sa', 'my_passwd');



I did the following

1.enabled php_mssql.dll extension in PHP.ini

2.every dll is in proper place(System32 or PHP folder),including ntwdblib.dll



I search lots of profile throught web ,but no one give me proper answer to resolve it.



after a few hour ,I found the problem was caused by

ntwdblib.dll ,which version is 7.00.839 ,when I replaced old ntwdblib.dll with the new ntwdblib.dll ,which version is 8.00.194 ,all problem are solved.

cmeerbeek[at]ymor[.]nl
13-May-2005 08:32


We had some, read A LOT, of problems with MSSQL under Windows 2003. 

We had 2 the same windows, php, php-ini, everything machines but only one could connect. Unable to connect was the error message.



Finnaly we checked the version of ntwdblib.dll and the one distributed with PHP was 7.00.... and the version of the one on the SQL Server install was 8.00.... so we copied this one in the php and apache dir and it worked.

diegobandeira at ibest dot com dot br
08-Apr-2005 03:42


Hello!



This code appears work fine and fast to me, like mysql or msaccess.

The server is working for an Intranet home page.



<?php

  $db = new COM("ADODB.Connection");

  $dsn = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=sa;Initial Catalog=tsos;Data Source=(local);Application Name=SellCar";

  $db->Open($dsn);

  $rs = $db->Execute("SELECT * FROM states order by name asc");



  while (!$rs->EOF)

  { 

     echo $rs->Fields['name']->Value."<BR>";

     $rs->MoveNext();

  }

?>



Diego Bandeira.

boonkit at gmail dot com
29-Mar-2005 09:29


If you are having problems with freeTDS when trying to get access to unicode data from mssql, set 'tds version =7.0' at etc/freetds.conf

tony
23-Mar-2005 03:51


With PHP 5 on a Windows 2000/IIS platform:



I have integrated authentication enabled in IIS.  I kept getting CGI timeouts on PHP pages for everyone but local administrators of the box.  The event log showed that PHP could not load php_mssql.dll, php_oci8.dll, and php_oracle.dll - 'Access Denied.'  



These extensions were executable by everyone, but the DLLs they depend on were not.  Had to add exec permissions for everyone to c:\winnt\system32\ntwdblib.dll as well as the oracle bin directory.

marcel at fluidleb dot com
31-Jan-2005 06:24


I've spent the last three days wild guessing why I could not connect to MS SQLServer 2000 and so I hope this might help someone else. Microsoft has purposefully closed the 1433 tcp port and others (maybe only to external ips) of the server. You can easily check if this is the case by looking at the Event Monitor. You should see an error produced by MSSQL SERVER/MSDE that basically says what I said. It suggests downloading and installing a security patch to open up the ports (but doesn't even say which update - remember this is Microsoft). 



Do download Service Pack 3a (SP3a). It does indeed fix the problem.

Salman Majid
25-Jan-2005 05:36


Sorry, previous message was incomplete. I used odbc functions to connect to Ms-SQL server. I was on a work station and server was not accessible for unknow reasons. mssql functions did not work there so I had to use odbc.

Salman Majid
25-Jan-2005 05:15


I was having problem in connecting Ms-SQL server with mssql_connect(srvr,uid,pwd). I simply created a DSN to my Database and replaced it with "server_name". i.e. 



mssql_connect(dsn,uid,pwd);



it worked well

craig at _NO_SPAM_deconstructor dot net
13-Jan-2005 08:22


Just a quick note pertaining marcos1979ar (10/06/04) definitive installation of FreeTDS above.



When you run the following to test the installation:

===============================================================

/usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S <ip of the server> -U <User SQL>

===============================================================



And it results in the following error:

=================================================================

locale is "C"

locale charset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968"

Password:

src/tds/login.c: tds_connect: xx.xx.x.xx:1443: Connection refused

Msg 20009, Level 9, State 0, Server OpenClient, Line 0

Server is unavailable or does not exist.

There was a problem connecting to the server

=================================================================



All I found that needed to be changed was for the configure --prefix from:



=======================================

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds 

=======================================

         to

=======================================

./configure --prefix=/usr/local 

=======================================



Small but worth noting.

hbinduni at hslprpol dot com
20-Dec-2004 08:15


i found http://odbtp.sourceforge.net working fast, easy to use and to configure, and yes, it's multiplatform.

marc at NOSPAM dot durdin dot net
19-Nov-2004 04:19


Buried away in the mssql_field_length documentation is an important limitation that it is certainly worth knowing about *BEFORE* you do any database design:



Note to Win32 Users: Due to a limitation in the underlying API used by PHP (MS DbLib C API), the length of VARCHAR fields is limited to 255. If you need to store more data, use a TEXT field instead. 



SQL Server natively supports VARCHAR up to 8000 characters.  Note that TEXT fields have substantially poorer performance (and are much more limited) than VARCHAR so you may want to design your databases accordingly...



You can also work around this limitation with the following:



   -- for example, with MyVarCharField VARCHAR(1000)

   SELECT CAST(MyVarCharField AS TEXT) FROM MyTable

ASWL
28-Oct-2004 12:55


This note is for mssql under a Windows environment.



If you are having problems connecting to MS SQL using the mssql PHP extension then I would suggest that you get a copy of the latest NTWDBLIB.DLL. Copy it to the directory where PHP expects to find it's dll files.



I had an issuse whereby I was unable to connect to a MS SQL Cluster and this resolved my problem.

Dimitri Tarassenko (mitka at mitka.us)
24-Oct-2004 07:37


To enable MS SQL functions in PHP on Fedora Core or RHEL3 without recompiling PHP and replacing the distribution PHP packages, download and install php-mssql and freetds RPMS from 



http://phprpms.sf.net/mssql

effeese at gmail dot com
15-Oct-2004 01:28


in relation to the "unicode problem" mentioned by andrej at dairyweb dot com dot au I suggest use andrew at power-grid dot com's solution:



if you get a "Unicode data in Unicode-only collation or ntext data cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or ODBC version 3.7 or earlier" error you can use this kind of code (in an MS environment, of course):

<?

$db = new COM("ADODB.Connection");

$dsn = "DRIVER={SQL Server}; SERVER={SERVER};UID={USER};PWD={PASS}; DATABASE={DB}";

$db->Open($dsn);

$rs = $db->Execute("SELECT * FROM table");



while (!$rs->EOF)

{

   echo $rs->Fields['column']->Value."<BR>";

   $rs->MoveNext();

}

?>



hope it helps.

mworku at yahoo dot com
03-Oct-2004 04:49


If you want to utilize the freetds.conf file db parameters within

mssql_connect() function 



<?

    putenv('FREETDSCONF=/etc/freetds.conf');



     /*

        mssql_connect('MSSQL_8.0' , 'user' , 'pwd'); 

        ....

        .... 

    */

?>



FreeTDS conf file



 [MSSQL_8.0]

    host = 10.254.254.10

    port = 1433

    tds version = 8.0

08-Aug-2004 10:11


For phpBB if you are having a problem with user cannot connect to database I found that gentiboard's comments were the answer.



You have to change sql secure connection to on in php.ini

marcos1979ar at yahoo dot com dot ar
10-Jun-2004 10:07


Red Hat 9.0   Freetds 0.62.3   Apache 2.0.49   PHP 5.0.ORC3



Instucction, that premit connect a server Linux with a server Windows 2000 Server with SQL Server. 



INSTALLING FREETDS

 

1-.  Download freetds -> www.freetds.org

2-.  tar -zxvf freetds-stable-tgz

3-.  cd freetds-0.62.3

4-.  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds --with-tdsver=8.0 --enable-msdblib --enable-dbmfix --with-gnu-ld



Note:  tdsver=8.0 if you use SQL 2000, tdsver=7.0 if you use SQL 7.0



5-.  make

6-.  make install

7-.  /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S <ip of the server> -U <User SQL>



Note: For default User SQL is    sa     and the it have not password

For example: /usr/local/freetds/bin/tsql -S 198.168.100.2 -U sa



8-.  Add the next text in freetds.conf ( /usr/local/freetds/etc )

[TDS]

host = <ip of the Server with Sql>

port = 1433

tds version = 8.0



Note: If you use SQL 2000 then tds version = 8.0

if you use SQL 7.0 then tds version = 7.0



9-.  Add the next text in the file /etc/ld.so.conf

/usr/local/freetds/lib



INSTALLING  APACHE



1-.  Download apache  www.apache.org

2-.  tar -zxvf httpd-2.0.49.tar.gz

3-.  cd httpd-2.0.49

4-.  ./configure --prefix=/etc/httpd --enable-so

5-.  make

6-.  make install

7-.  Configure the file  -> httpd.conf ( /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf )

8-.  Probe the apache: /etc/httpd/bin/apachectl start

/etc/httpd/bin/apachectl stop



INSTALLING  PHP



1-.  Download the PHP in this site (www.php.net)

2-.  tar -zxvf php-5.0-ORC3.tar.gz

3-.  cd php-5.0-ORC3

4-.  ./configure --with-apxs2=/etc/httpd/bin/apxs --enable-versioning --with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds --disable-libxml

5-.  make

6-.  make install

7-.  cp php.ini-DIST /usr/local/lib

8-.  Add the next line in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php



TESTING



<html>

<body>

<?php

$con = mssql_connect ("<ip of the server SQL>", "sa", "");

mssql_select_db ("<Data Base>", $con);

$sql= "SELECT * FROM <Table>";

$rs= mssql_query ($sql, $con);

echo "The field number one is: ";

echo mssql_result ($rs, 0, 0);

mssql_close ($con);

?>

</body>

</html>

Asad Moin
29-May-2004 02:48


I took the following steps to make PHP talk to SQL2000:



- Copy ntwdblib.dll file from your SQL server's  \winnt\system32 folder to the \winnt\system32 folder on the PHP box.



- Copy the php_mssql.dll from the 'dlls/' directory in distribution package to your windows/system (Win9.x) or winnt/system32 (WinNT, Win2000, XP) directory.



- Add or uncomment the following line under Windows Extentions in your php.ini file (\winnt\php.ini): extension=php_mssql.dll



Hope that helps.

andrew at power-grid dot com
26-May-2004 07:11


Ok, this took me a few days to get right but for those of you out there having a hard time with getting PHP to talk to SQL 2000 this is for you!  Personally for me the mssql plugin barely worked with sql 2000 and was VERY slow, here's your solution and also some good code to connect securely and quickly through ADO. I was having the worst time getting ADO to work as well, most sites do the driver part a different way.. for me the code below is the only thing that worked.

<?

$db = new COM("ADODB.Connection"); 

$dsn = "DRIVER={SQL Server}; SERVER={SERVER};UID={USER};PWD={PASS}; DATABASE={DB}"; 

$db->Open($dsn);

$rs = $db->Execute("SELECT * FROM table");



while (!$rs->EOF)

{

    echo $rs->Fields['column']->Value."<BR>"; 

    $rs->MoveNext(); 

}

?>

Arthur W Rudd
26-May-2004 06:37


I'm running apache 1.3.26 and php 4.3.6 on a linux server (debian), and connecting to SQL Server 2000 via php4-mssql and Freetds.



I managed to get a connection to the SQL server, but found that when I used the function mssql_query() to pass in a Select statement containing datetime columns, I would get the following message in Internet Explorer - "The page cannot be displayed".  When I removed the datetime column from the query, it worked fine, and returned a resultset.

Looked in the apache error.log file, and found the error "child pid xxxxxx exit signal segmentation fault".



After a lot of searching on the internet I stumbled upon an entry which was missing from my php.ini.  I added the line "mssql.datetimeconvert = Off" to the MSSQL section of pphp.ini, restarted Apache, and the problem went away.  Now I can select dates in SQL queries

jasenko at get2net dot dk
05-May-2004 06:46


If you get a crash trying to get currency from database with smallmoney datatype and big value (in my case it was 15000..), change datatype to money instead. The error is gone.



I'm using php 4.2.3 and MSSQL 7.0 on windows.

andrej at dairyweb dot com dot au
28-Apr-2004 08:49


if you are having problems with freeTDS, or like me you are trying to get access to unicode data from mssql.



try http://odbtp.sourceforge.net it is cross platform and (reportedly) faster than freeTDS. it is very stable and easy to configure.



i was originally trying to solve an error message of "Unicode data in Unicode-only collation or ntext data cannot be sent to clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or ODBC version 3.7 or earlier" and found this solution.



hope it helps someone.

elmer at web-axis dot net
28-Apr-2004 04:52


Here's something that could save you 2-3 days research trying to figure out:



<?php

putenv('TDSDUMP=/tmp/tds.log');

putenv('SYBASE=/usr/lib/freetds');

putenv('TDSVER=70');

?>



If you have problems getting the mssql functions to work try these varibles. MSSQL/PHP has problems dealing with different tds versions. 7.0 seems to work well with our server version, maybe a different version would work better with yours.

pmfa at versenet dot com
27-Apr-2004 04:26


If you're going to use freeTDS just to access mssql databases, supply the "--enable-msdblib" switch to the freeTDS configure script when building the library. This will fix some obscure problems, like the month in a date not being displayed correctly, more information in http://www.freetds.org/userguide/config.htm.

gentiboard2002 at yahoo dot de
19-Apr-2004 01:55


there's no documentation of the php.ini option mssql.secure_connection.



so i have here a MS SQL 2000 Server with Windows Authentication and a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6. So it is clear that i cannot use the usual handling of a mssql_connect. 

I turned the mssql.secure_connection on.

I let the Windows IIS to run under an Service Account(normal user account without any special rights) in a Windows Domain, so i do have a authenticated connection to the SQL Server...



Everything works fine without any rewrite of the code...

19-Mar-2004 08:42


Note: DBLib is obsolete and only supports SQL Server 4.x, 6.5, 7.0 and 8.x.

jholland at cs dot selu dot edu
10-Dec-2003 09:37


To enable mssql in php 4.3.3 and above on linux/unix boxes, you must put this line in php.ini



extension=mssql.so

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