Comments on: How To: Install mssql extension for php on unix

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:51:42 +0000

Hi Ash,

You do have “Configuration File (php.ini) Path ” right? That should be the folder where your php.ini will be loaded from by default it “Loaded Configuration File” shows “(none)”.

Find “PHP Extension” in your phpinfo(). if it shows “20060613+lfs”, it means the .so extension file is loaded in the right directory.

Follow the steps in step 6 should let you create the .so file in the right directory.

hope this helps!

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:52:51 +0000

Hi Steven,
Sorry to bother again. I removed the php5 directory which i had before and installed php-5.2.14. I still could not find .so file in its ext/mssql/ directory but i did find one in usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/ but i don’t understand one thing. Do i need to copy it back to the ext/mssql/ folder or what should i do next. there is no configure file in ext/mssql to run the ./configure command.

Also the phpinfo() page shows (none) in place of loaded configuration file. Does it mean that it cannot locate php.ini file? I am sure i did configure, make, make install and also make test .

Please help.

Thnks

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:12:53 +0000

Hi Ash, great to hear that this tutorial have been helpful.

Yep, seems like the .so file is missing. since freeTDS is a source code library you jus need to get the version you need and overwrite w config-make-install will do.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:50:00 +0000

Hi Steven,
This tutorial is very helpful. Though many comments have really confused me for a while. I am trying to connect to MS SQL through PHP on Ubuntu.
The error says mssql.a|so is missing. I don’t know if its same .so file we are looking at. Can you please tell me how to downgrade and upgrade to later version of freeTDS. Thank you for ur help.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:06:16 +0000

Thank you very much…
After 2x months I now have it fixed in OpenSUSE-Factory.
Pity that the Novell / SUSE does not see this as a feature.
Ubunto and Fedora has this by default…

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 29 May 2010 05:10:59 +0000

Hi Brad, glad that it’s helpful and thank you for the updates! =)

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:59:11 +0000

Great tutorial! I used this in conjunction with one I found here:

http://www.dotvoid.com/

FYI I had to install php5-sybase to get php to recognize the mssql_* functions. In ubuntu 10.04 I just ran this:

sudo apt-get install -y php5-sybase

Also, I’m not sure if it really matters much, but I did add these empty text files to the freetds installation directory:

touch /usr/local/include/tds.h
touch /usr/local/lib/libtds.a

By the way, if you don’t specify a directory, freetds installs by default in /usr/local/

One last thing:

When I installed the mssql.so file, I specified the freetds installation directory, like so:

./configure –with-mssql=/usr/local

By: renato batisteli pinto

renato batisteli pinto — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:06:59 +0000

Hi
Although new to linux I have a real problem with a MSSQL DB connection. I have, on one side, a server fedora-core8 and on the other hand, a Windows Server 2000. After much hesitation I decided to follow this tutorial but since installing the unixODBC I get the following error: configure: error: non acceptable C compiller found in $ PATH.
I look for config.log but can not identify where the problem lies. Some good soul can help me?
Sorry for the style I’m not fluent in English

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:02:16 +0000

What I needed to do was put an entry for the DSN in the odbc.ini that is in the /etc/ folder as well as an entry in the file /home/username/.odbc.ini.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:34:33 +0000

adam, great to hear you fix it, which part of the user-DSN are you referring to? so i can update the documentation