[TriLUG] LAmP (but with Microsoft SQL 2k) - suggestions?

[Andrew Phillips]

I've done a lot of research in this area and actually found that odbtp
is a much better solution then FreeTDS to the problem.
http://odbtp.sourceforge.net/  Check it out, you'll probably be
suprised how good it is.

-Andrew



On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:16:05 -0400, Bob Shepherd <rwshep2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> We have done this successfully and recently with FreeTDS.  I checking with my
> partner to see if we have a HOWTO I can provide to this list.
> 
> If you've already established connection and can pass TSQL commands from PHP,
> your problem then is largely one of which methods to use in PHP.  The TSQL
> string itself is very close to ANSI-SQL.
> 
> Bob Shepherd
> 
> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 1:19 pm, Turnpike Man wrote:
> > In the past, I have managed with SuSE 7.1 to MSSQL 7.0 on PPC, but that was
> > more than 2 years ago.  I keep seeing this unixODBC come up and now, so in
> > a new environment in different job, I'm trying to do as the subject
> > suggests. This is how I did it previously:
> >
> > http://www.turnpike420.net/linux2/Apache_PHP_FreeTDS_MSSQL7.txt
> > Which I honestly can't stand this method and had to do it on SuSE at the
> > time b/c standard installs were configured for it, and I don't think SuSE
> > had a package thing like RPM, but if it did, doesn't matter b/c I didn't
> > know.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm using FC1, I have php and php-odbc packages installed, unixODBC
> > is installed, as well as Apache 2.x.  PHP works great with Apache right
> > now, this is out of the box install, nothing config'd away from default.  I
> > would like to think with this combination I can talk to the MSSQL 8.0
> > (2000) database from a PHP web application.
> >
> > An alternate method I'm trying is using the FreeTDS tool that I used back
> > in the first example.  FreeTDS now comes with 'tsql' tool which I can use
> > and successfully connect to the MSSQL 2K db.  I don't know how to use tsql,
> > so other than successful connect, I don't know how far I can go.  At least
> > it proves I'm not firewalled off form the db.  Any tips or experience
> > making this happen would be great.
> >
> > David M.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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