I'm a relative novice in Linux when it comes to configuring, making and installing packages, so I use tools like Yast to set up my webserver. Recently I've been tasked with writing a PHP program that interfaces with a MSSQL server and have found that Yast does not configure PHP5 with MSSQL support by default.
How can I either add mssql support to the current PHP configuration, or re-install PHP5 though Yast with MSSQL enabled?
Unfortunately this is a live environment, and I can't mess with the current installation too much, which is why re-installing using Yast would be ok, but doing it manually wouldn't (I'm not experienced enough to trust myself with it). It doesn't appear as though Yast leaves the php-config command lying around for me to use.
Thanks for your time.
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Thanks for the info.
The manual configuration you linked has some helpful information, but it looks like ot would require me to re-install PHP5 from scratch which is a last resort type of thing.
As for the ODBC connection, that's an option, but we have a separate server (configured with mssql support) that uses all mssql_connect statements for php and I would rather stick wtih that if possible since some of those programs are migrating.
Thanks again
> "but it looks like ot would require me to re-install PHP5 from scratch which is a last resort type of thing"
That's a misunderstanding. The author's descriptive capabilities somewhat ... limited.
You will need to download and extract the PHP sources of the PHP version matching the one you have installed (note: it's not PHP 5, but PHP 5. + subversion numbers!), that much is true, but you only compile the mssql extension (mssql.so), because that does not come in compiled state when installing PHP normally.
Once downloaded and decompressed the sources, you go to the download folder (since you should do this as root, this could be a subfolder of the /root folder), then /ext/mssql, and issue the make commands only in there.
As specified in the HowTo (or in the second part of this post: http://www.linuxquestions.
You will have to make and install the mssql.so in any case, whatever way of connection to the database you prefer.
torimar is correct, FreeTDS provides MSSQL support which works with PHP. I have used it on Debian and it was a straight forward installation.
Outside of FreeTDS's documentation, I learned all thats needed is using --with-mysql=/path/to/free
cd php
./configure ---with-mysql=/path/to/fre
make
make install
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by: torimarPosted on 2009-01-16 at 12:22:35ID: 23397011
Well, you used "MSSQL" four times in your post, so I guess this is no typo ;)
This is, however, a somewhat unusual request in the Linux world.
Installing freeTDS and unixODBC should work though, You may then address your MSSQL databases using
odbc_connect(), odbc_exec(), ocbc_result() etc.
FreeTDS and unixODBC are in the SuSE repositories. So you should be able to install them using YaST. Here are direct links, in case you miss the repositories in question:
http://packages.opensuse-c
http://packages.opensuse-c
For the manual configuration required in order to make PHP work as expected, see this HowTo:
http://howtogetitworking.c
It was written for 'Unix', but should work on SuSe too.
Note: I never did this myself, and haven't tested it now. So I only theoretically know that it should work.