RE: MSSQL 7 and PHP

Alex, I've beed using the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC bridge for about a year now and it really does a nice job. I've never had any issues at all. You stated that you didn't want to load software on the SQL server but I thought I'de through it out there anyway. You could always install the Easysoft software on a secont NT box running next to the database server. You would have to setup a system DSN from that server to your SQL box. It's one more box and one more hop to get your data but it's a workaround. Hope this helps. check out http://www.npps.org/beta. This site is Apache and PHP4 at the front end and SQL Server 7 at the back end. It's still in development so don't expect lots of content. Patrick Brown pbrown@sla.com -----Original Message----- From: Alex Verstraeten [mailto:alex@quad.com.ar] Sent: Saturday, July 18, 1998 3:45 PM To: php-general Subject: MSSQL 7 and PHP I need to connect to some MSSQL 7 server from php, so far I've found nothing but bugs and unstability. I've tried sybase-ct and sybase libs at linux and also some php_mssql70.dll at win32 Now I'm gonna try the beta FreeTDS libs but I don't get a good feeling about it (by reading users experience on it). So my golden question: what's a rock-solid way to connect to a MSSQL 7 server from PHP? I'm so frustrated right now that I don't really care if i have to use php3 or php4, linux or win32, sybase, odbc or whatever as long as it works fine and doesnt requires extra software at the NT SQL server (ie: odbc bridges, openlink software, etc) if this means using php3.0.6 with odbc I'd go for it. I just dont want to keep on trying more and more ways to get this working. Well, thanks a lot for your help Alex