RE: [PHP-DB] PHP and Easysoft ODBC

Sorry, I didn't mention that I've tried that too. When I include that line, ODBCINI shows up as an environment variable in phpinfo and the path is correct. I've also rechecked the permissions on the odbc.ini file and it is readable by php. I wrote a script to open it and read a line and print it. I think we checked into openlink first, but we couldn't see where openlink supports connections to a TurboImage database running on an hp server. Do you know if this is supported or if there are any plans to support it? Jason Stechschulte jpstech@nc.edu -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hill [mailto:ahill@openlinksw.com] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:26 AM To: Jason Stechschulte; Patrick Brown; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] PHP and Easysoft ODBC Hi, I would imagine that you need to include this line in your script: putenv("ODBCINI=path/to/your/odbc.ini"); You can also check out the HOWTO at http://www.iodbc.org/odbc-phpHOWTO.html It doesn't specifcially cover Easysoft (they compete with my company to a certain extent =) but might get you going in the right direction. Best regards, Andrew -------------------------------------------------- -- Andrew Hill Professional Services Consultant OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com Universal Database Connectivity Technology Providers -----Original Message----- From: Jason Stechschulte [mailto:jpstech@nc.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:20 AM To: Patrick Brown; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] PHP and Easysoft ODBC Thanks for the reply. I also posted my problem to the easysoft newsgroup and I still haven't gotten a reply there. Unfortunately though, the problem still exists. I do have the DNS entry on the database server. There is a program with ESOOB called demo that connects to a database on an Easysoft server. I changed the odbc.ini file to match what I'm using in my php program. Then when I ran the demo program it connected to my database and even reported back the database name. So ESOOB seems to be installed and working correctly. I just can't seem to be able to use it with PHP. Also I'm not real experienced at installing things on *nix systems, and I've never installed php, but I do know a little about it. Probably just enough to be dangerous! '--with-apache=../apache' is used to create a static install instead of a dynamic install as far as I know. This option is not showing up in phpinfo so I'm assuming it wasn't used. What is the difference between the dynamic install and the static install? Should we include this option to get Easysoft ODBC to work? The only other option you mention that I don't know if it would make a difference or not would be --without-mysql. We also need mysql so it was installed --with-mysql. Do you know if there are any known problems configuring ESOOB and MYSQL together into PHP? Thanks again for the reply. This list sure beats the easysoft newsgroup! Jason Stechschulte jpstech@nc.edu