PHP 4.0 Bug #8808: sybase_connect() problem

From: sjm05@health.state.ny.us Operating system: Win2000 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: Sybase-ct (ctlib) related Bug description: sybase_connect() problem I work for NYS Department of Health. We have a large Public Health Network which operates on SUN boxes with Sybase ASE SQL. Most of the applications are written in a combination of Perl, Java, HTML, Javascript. I work in an area where a major application was developed to collect Labs information. The application is written largely in PowerDynamo, HTML, JavaScript, and Perl using an abundant amount of stored procedures. I am investigating the possibility of replacing the PowerDynamo with PHP. On the surface it appears that we would not be in for a major rewrite as we would if we were to employ JSP as an alternative. PowerDynamo is a dead product in the eyes of Sybase as well as most of the Sybase Developer community. I first became interested when we attempted to move the existing application to Laptop computers for purpose of taking to presentations. I found that the combination of the MS Personal Web Server and PowerDynamo was very unstable. I began looking for a better Web Server for the Laptop computers which lead me to Apache. I have never been able to get PowerDynamo to work with the Apache Web Server. In learning about the Apache Web Server I began to see the PHP product being discussed as a SQL Server interface. So I began investigating it at that point. So for I have PHP, MySQL, and Apache functioning properly in Win2000. Sybase ASE is functioning properly as well in the ODBC interface to SQL Advantage, Access, PowerBuilder, etc. When I attempt to connect the PHP code to the Sybase server it fails giving the following error message: ======================== The instruction at "0x00a555b1" referenced memory at "0xa5ed7940". The memory could not be "written". Click on OK to terminate the program Apache/1.3.14 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80 This has happened a number of times with several builds of the Apache, PHP, and reloading the Win 2000 OS just to be sure. PHP Version 4.0.5-dev Windows NT 5.0 build 2195 / Jan 12 2001 Sybase 11.9.2 ASE for Windows NT I have installed PHP on other computers using the same configurations and gotten some slightly different results. As in what follows: [Thu Jan 18 21:39:32 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: c:/php4/php.exe In each case the call to the sybase_connect() causes PHP to fail. If I comment out the sybase_connect() call the rest of the program runs although calls to other sybase functions return appropriate error messages in that there is no connection. I can send more detailed information in the way of Apache error.log, php.ini, phpinfo() display screen, and the Apache httpd.conf. This format does not lead itself to attachments. I may have left something out in the way of preparing the interface in that I have found very little reference to the PHP / Sybase installation. -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8808&edit=1