Hi Weston, maybe this page can help you http://in.php.net/manual/en/function.odbc-connect.php
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 02:15:11 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get PHP (for Windows) to talk to MS SQL Server. This > is proving to be non-trivial... > > I downloaded and installed the Windows binary package on my machine > (the machine is running Microsfot Windows XP Professional), and > jumped through the hoops to get it running under Apache 2.0. So > far, so good. > > Now, the first thing I noted was that the mssql functions actually > don't seem to exist in the binary... and apparently you have to > compile them in to PHP, after having built FreeTDS. This seems a bit > odd, as it's not at all clear to me that FreeTDS actually will > build under Windows at all (it being a UNIX solution). I did try > building it under cygwin, which ended with a flurry of error messages > in bsqldb.c, so this assumption seems correct. > > All right, approach #2... maybe I can use COM objects to try to > connect to an ODBC data source, something like an example I found > on the php documentation for mssql: > > $db = new COM("ADODB.Connection"); > $dsn = "DRIVER=SQL Server; SERVER=my.local.server;UID=user;PWD=passwd; > DATABASE=dbname"; > $db->Open($dsn); > $rs = $db->Execute("SELECT * FROM project LIMIT 1"); > > while (!$rs->EOF) > { > echo $rs->Fields['project_id']->Value."<BR>"; > $rs->MoveNext(); > } > > This seems to at least kick up no errors up to a point... and > that point is when I try to wind through that loop. > > Any ideas what the right best way to do this is? I'd prefer to > use the mssql functions if I can... > > Thanks, > > Weston > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php