Re: PHP to read MS-SQL (solution)

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Michael Sims wrote: |That's actually pretty cool, from a tech standpoint, but why not |access the MS-SQL database directly? From Windows it's easy, you just |need the SQL .dll's installed on the server, and from Linux/Unix you |can build PHP with FreeTDS support (--with-sybase=/usr/local/freetds). | |There is an article detailing the second approach here: | |http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/alberto20000919.php3 | |It's rather old, but still has useful information. | |My company is using PHP on Linux and accessing a MS SQL 7 server for |all it's data. We've had it in production for nearly a year now and |it's worked nearly flawlessly. As far as I could tell we couldn't do that because of the way the software was made. ADO or whatever proprietary MS thing was in there, which I couldn't find any PHP support for. I could be wrong, as I don't completely understand how he has it setup. I'm a linux server only type of guy. However, I'll take a look at it. Maybe I was incorrect in my research, or the programmer didn't look fully into the specs for PHP. Thanks, Bryan