Comments on: PHP, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), and IIS: Connect and Query with ODBC

By: jaideep

jaideep — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:17:48 +0000

hopefully it’s help alottttt
http://discussion.accuwebhosting.com/php-scripts/698-how-connect-ms-sql-database-server-php.html

By: patrick

patrick — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:49:46 +0000

Hello David
Can you share anymore information on making the connection? I need to make the same type of connection but don’t have a helpful host. Did you need special extensions compiled into PHP?

$virtual_dsn = ‘DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=database.domain.org,45277;DATABASE=MyDatabase’;

By: Blivet

Blivet — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:36:17 +0000

First, David, your the man. All I can say.

I have been using odbc to mysql for years now. I work on projects in the public sector pulling data from various sources and manipulating it into various formats depending on the client needs. Other than the tablenames in [], which I did not know or use, my setup is similar.

I’m trying now to figure out how to pull data at intervals to prevent clients/users from hitting their server directly (mission critical stuff). Your XML back file got my attention there, I just need to figure out how to create mssql->mysql mappings and learn something about sending the xml to mysql using some kind of field mapping. Great stuff though.

By: satish

satish — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:13:42 +0000

cant i connect Microsoft SQL server in PHP application to access data from SQL server ?

By: Donald Spears

Donald Spears — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:30:06 +0000

Hey, thanks for this…I’ve been trying to get a connection to a remote machine going for two days and every mssql function was crapping out on me and all attempts at fixing turned up nothing.

By: okmi

okmi — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:17:07 +0000

we are trying to connect to a remote mssql database using php that runs on a completely separate linux box. looking at phpinfo(), it looks as though ODBC is listed as supported under dbx. the problem is that every time i try odbc_connect(), it says it is an undefined function. does anyone know how i would go about getting it to work in php?

By: SneakyWho_am_i

SneakyWho_am_i — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:52:16 +0000

ADOdb, ODBC…… The Zend Framework has a nice database abstraction layer in pure php (requires PHP5 but if you’re starting PHP4 projects now then something is wrong with you) – it can talk to PDO and a bunch of other extensions, I assume that it can abstract away MSSQL.

Maybe, maybe not… Probably not helpful but worth looking at (and E_STRICT compliant).

OH! And, it’s loosely coupled with the rest of the “framework” – you can use it by itself and don’t need to touch the other stuff – a bit like a normal library such as PEAR.

By: mwangi sk

mwangi sk — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:10:58 +0000

You made my day!

Actually you more than made my day – it is just the problem I needed to kickstart me with php on IIS!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:37:26 +0000

If somebody is familiar with ADOdb he can use php almost with any database. This is why we are encouraged at school doing this. It’s pretty simple and easier to handle than the original mysql :)

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:11:43 +0000

Listen up close yo. You really need to have a plan for timeouts bc those connections time out like a mug. I learned the hard way. The reason I say that is that there is prob a 100% chance that this is a remote connection unless your php is executing on a windows box and it is on the same server. Usually your php runs on apache and the sql server db is on another box, and so thus the timeouts.

For apps that make a lot of database hits where constant timing out can be a pain you might consider running a job that dumps it to a mysql database, I’ve done that alot. If you just have some widget that makes a query, you might could get away with caching, but you always need to handle timeouts.

I really prefer web services over direct db connections if its say a third party or a database and infrastructure that’s completely separate from your own but sometimes you don’t always have that option and web service calls time out too.

Anyways hope that helps.