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This document describes how to connect to MS SQL 6.x+ database server
via ODBC functions of PHP3(3.0.1x or above) compiled with Openlink
drivers under Linux.
In the Unix world, people may hate to be invoked with any M$ related
software. However, in the real world, the boss may require you to
store data in a MS SQL database on NT and run web application on
Linux. What to do? Quit the job or sit down to read this document? If
you choose latter, I will give you a detailed installation guide so
that you can keep the job for a while. It is a How-to guide, not a
Why-so guide. So don't ask me why abc instead of cba. I don't know
either.
PHP is becoming more and more popular in web programmers, mainly
because it can be configured to connect to various databases like
Oracle, MySQL, Solid and so on. But for a MS SQL server, the problem
is different. Though you can use PHP's Sybase-ct support features to
directly connect to MSSQL, many people (at least me) prefer to
connect via ODBC.
Utilizing Openlink ODBC middleware, you can use those ODBC_xxxx
functions to connect to all the database Openlink has a driver for.
You have to install Openlink Linux client and Server middleware and
re-compile PHP to support ODBC functions. In the end, I made a script
sample for reference.
Copyright (c) 1999 by Zili Zhang
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instructions.
This document was derived from the plain text entry found on
http://www.silen.net/openlink-php-odbc.txt.
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