Re: Solaris/ODBC.

Hi John, Have you tried to switch the order of your odbc_connect args? e.g. $connection = odbc_connect("userid","passwd","machine_name") This should probably work :-) John Margaritsanakis wrote: > > Does anyone know the solution to this? It seems to be a common enough > thing to do, but I've looked around and can't find an obvious way to resolve > it. > Basically, recently we decided to have our front-end handled by PHP > scripts on Unix, and the databases themselves on NT on our SQL server. I've > already been using PHP for a while on msql and MySQL, so I figured it was > going to be pretty much easy. > Thing is, $connection = odbc_connect("DSN=<machine > name>","<userid>","<passwd>") doesn't return > name>anything; it doesn't even > return 0. The script reaches that and just dies an unfortunate death. Even > or die (...) won't return anything helpful. > After looking around on the FAQs and tutorials, I assume my problem is > the lack of ODBC drivers for Solaris; if it's not, and someone can propose a > solution, please let me know. Otherwise, I've been looking around for some > Solaris drivers but all I can find is Sybase's, and there seems to be some > problem with their ftp site in the section I need. > Thanks for any replies. > > /------------------------------------------------------------- > | John Margaritsanakis, Programmer/Analyst > | Istos Web Publishing Solutions and Services Agency > |------------------------------------------------------------- > | Crime doesn't pay as well as politics. > |------------------------------------------------------------- > | "And when we meet again my hand shall hold a Silmaril > | from the Iron Crown; for you have not looked the last > | upon Beren son of Barahir." The Silmarillion. > \------------------------------------------------------------- -- ====== Rune Kallhovd, CORENA Norge AS ====== = Software Engineer = = P.O.Box 1024, N-3601 Kongsberg, NORWAY = = Tlf: +47 32 73 7448, Fax: +47 32 73 6877 = == CORENA Home Page: http://www.corena.no ==