How to connect and query a local and remote Microsoft SQL Server from a PHP application?

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I have been trying (in vain) to connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 using the PHP Driver for SQL Server released by Microsoft. I had to install the Native Client, the PHP Driver, edit the php.ini file. And voila, it connects but shouts an error (which is a stupid array with one of the entries which says) Native Client is required. I have installed both versions 1.0 and 1.1 (and tried connecting with separate installations as well) but in vain.

Can somebody point out where I'm going wrong? :-(

Also, how do you query a remotely hosted SQL Server from a PHP application that is running on a LAMP environment?

Posted 10-Jan-10 19:11pm

Manoj Sterex

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fly904 · Answer 1 · 2010-01-11T09:04:00

I did try the native client a while ago and I didn't get it to work, so I got the mssql extension working instead.

Have you looked into the mssql[^] extension for PHP? The alternative is FreeTDS[^].

I only have experience connecting to an MSSQL DB on an IIS server with the mssql extension. The only (major) problem I had with it was that a couple of dll's were missing from the C:\Windows folder, ntwdblib.dll in particular. php_mssql.dll was also missing from C:\inetpub\php\ext folder. After I put the dll's in the right place all I had to do was update my php.ini file an it worked.

Hope that helps.