Re: SV: [PHP-DB] mssql_connect() commandline problem

Erik, Having only set up PHP once on Windoze and once with Apache on Linux, I would have to reference the installation docs on php.net. On Windoze, you edit the php.ini file-- maybe that's also true for the stand-alone on Linux? You need the stand-alone version if you want to bypass the Apache server and work within the shell environment. Richard Erik wrote:

I wrote a script (<? phpinfo(); ?>) and executed it from the commandline (php script.php > test.txt) turns out text.txt doesnt have sybase support listed at all - which the apache version of phpinfo has. could this be the problem? and if so, how do i enable sybase support for the commandline php? or can i setup so i run the apache configured php from the commandline also? thank you for your previous answer!

Sounds like you might be working with 2 different versions of php: Mod-php for Apache in the web environment, stand-alone php operating in the shell. You might want to start by ensuring that the stand alone version is compiled -with mssql. Try running phpinfo() in the shell? Richard Erik wrote:

When running a (php 4.0.6) script (on redhat 6.1) using mssql_connect() directly on the shell with "php -q script.php" i get a fatal error: Call to undefined function: mssql_connect() But this error does not occur when running the script through a browser (apache webserver).... What's the deal here? Erik Kaber