Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Functions (PDO_DBLIB)

Introduction

Warning:

This extension is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this extension -- including the names of its functions and anything else documented about this extension -- may change without notice in a future release of PHP. Use this extension at your own risk.

PDO_DBLIB is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO) interface to enable access from PHP to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases through the FreeTDS libary.

On Windows, you should use the PDO_ODBC driver to connect to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases, as the native Windows DB-LIB is ancient, thread un-safe and no longer supported by Microsoft.

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PDO_DBLIB DSN — Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases

Code Examples / Notes » ref.pdo_dblib

To connect to SQL Server 2005 Express on Windows, do it like this: $pdo = new PDO ('mssql:host=localhost,1433;dbname=[redacted]', '[redacted]', '[redacted]'); localhost localhost\SQLEXPRESS localhost\1433 localhost:1433 will not work on Windows. localhost,1433 does work. YMMV on other OS's; try each. Also make sure your TCP/IP Properties -> IP Addresses are correct under SQL Server Configuration Manager.

There is currently little sybase related PDO docs out there. The ones that I found often mention a spec for a dsn that is invalid. Here's how I am currently connecting to sybase ASE: 1. Compile up freetds http://www.freetds.org on top of open client; 2. Add the PDO and PD_DBLIB modules to php 5 as per the documentation; Note: I'm currently using the PDO-beta and PDO_DBLIB-beta; 3. Check mods installed ok using "pear list" and "php -m"; The documentation often says to use "sybase:" as your DSN, this doesn't work. Use "dblib:" instead. Here's an example: <?php try { $hostname = "myhost"; $port = 10060; $dbname = "tempdb"; $username = "dbuser"; $pw = "password"; $dbh = new PDO ("dblib:host=$hostname:$port;dbname=$dbname","$username","$pw"); } catch (PDOException $e) { echo "Failed to get DB handle: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n"; exit; } $stmt = $dbh->prepare("select name from master..sysdatabases where name = db_name()"); $stmt->execute(); while ($row = $stmt->fetch()) { print_r($row); } unset($dbh); unset($stmt); ?> Hope this helps.

If You work with MSSQL Server 7.0/2000/... under Windows and use non latin Encoding then better To use PDO_MSSQL until PDO_ODBC bugs will be fixed (MSSQL ext far more stable and usabe for PHP versions <=5.1.2). If your MSSQL connection use strings in OEM encoding (cp866 for russian charset) 1. Run Microsoft Server/Client Network Utility on work PC and UNCHECK "DBLibrary options"/"Automatic ANSI to OEM conversion" 2. Restart Web server if needed.

Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Functions (PDO_DBLIB)

Introduction

Code Examples / Notes » ref.pdo_dblib

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