#21928 [Fbk->Opn]: Cannot find valid ODBC DSN

ID: 21928 User updated by: Matt.hintze@nana.com Reported By: Matt.hintze@nana.com -Status: Feedback +Status: Open Bug Type: ODBC related Operating System: Win2k server PHP Version: 4.3.0 New Comment: One smart comment deserves another. I figured out the bug, and I can reproduce, and I know how to get around it, and the bug is in PHP. 1. The code string "$dbh = odbc_connect(); // yes I know it will fail" was given to me to run by kalowsky@php.net. Look down in the post and you will see this. I only tried to follow his directions. So keep your cracks to yourself until you read the whole post. 2. It is a SYSTEM DSN. I have created a MILLION DSNs in my lifetime, and it is a SYSTEM DSN. I even tried it as a user DSN and it wouldn't work. SYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEMSYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEM 3. Again, if you had read the entire post, you would have seen that this DSN points to a MS SQL server database. 4. I see where many others have had this same issue. The Bug support group continues to deny it as a bug. I wrote as many as I could and asked if they had found a resolution. Everyone that wrote back said they had not, and had given up. If they write me, I will walk them through the work-around. 5. If you had not been such a smart $%&@, and I might have helped everyone out by posting the details here on the real problem. 6. Am I stressed out? Maybe..... I spent the last 2 days having everybody keep telling me that I configured a USER DSN when I did not and having me run test scripts that would obviously fail. 7. SYSTEM DSN SYSTEM DSN SYSTEM DSN Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-29 16:49:34] pollita@php.net Um.... you issue an odbc_connect() call that you know will fail, then try to pass the result (which is === FALSE by the way) to commands which expect a valid resource and you're somehow SURPRISED by the results you got? Ignoring that walking contradiction for the moment.... The fact that it's happening on IIS only (and not command line) suggests one of three posssible explanations: (A) It's a User DSN created by your user account (hence visible to you on the command line but not to the webserver who is running as IUSER_GUEST or whatever) (yes I know you said it was system, but please, check again as this is the most likely answer) Just for giggles, try logging in as another user (non-administrator though) and trying that sample script I provided earlier on the command line. (B) There are one or more files (odbc.dlls) which are unreadable/unexecutable by the IIS user (not terribly common, but at least possible -- are you in the administrator group?) (C) You're connecting to an ODBC datasource which requires built in NT authentication (such as MSSQL) and you have no IUSR_GUEST account on the SQL server which is somehow throwing an incorrect error message. (highly bloody unlikely) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-29 12:23:53] Matt.hintze@nana.com This is what I ran from IIS <? $dbh = odbc_connect(); // yes I know it will fail $res = odbc_data_source($dbh, SQL_FETCH_FIRST); echo $res; $res = odbc_data_source($dbh, SQL_FETCH_NEXT); echo $res; ?> These are the results. Warning: Wrong parameter count for odbc_connect() in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\survey\test.php on line 3 Warning: odbc_data_source(): supplied argument is not a valid ODBC-Link resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\survey\test.php on line 4 Warning: odbc_data_source(): supplied argument is not a valid ODBC-Link resource in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\survey\test.php on line 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-29 07:19:09] kalowsky@php.net kept as feedback until testing done... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-29 00:29:25] Matt.hintze@nana.com BTW: I am running MDAC 2.7 SP1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-29 00:27:09] Matt.hintze@nana.com I'll run your test in the morning. It might be notable that I can run my script from the command line and have no problems connecting to the ODBC DSN. But when I run it through IIS, it fails. I ran this same script on my local win2k pro desktop and it works fine. This is only happening on my win2k server. I searched the net and see lots of people with this same issue, but cannot find a single one that has a resolution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/21928 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21928&edit=1