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

By: Deepak

Deepak — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:38:52 +0000

Dhruv,if there were no error during compile, check the loaded configuration file in phpinfo. Most hosts today provide custom php.ini. If the php.ini path is different then you should put the load extension line in that file

echo “extension=mssql.so” > /path/to/custom/php.ini

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:31:32 +0000

dhruv, make sure that the various “make install” do not have any generated errors.

By: dhruv

dhruv — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:11:52 +0000

i have followed the tutorial,
but still in my phpinfo() , its not showing ODBC section.

also getting this error on page

Fatal error: Call to undefined function odbc_connect() in /home/frendzho/public_html/xyz.co.cc/mssql.php on line 8

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:57:39 +0000

Hi Roshan,

It seems like you are having problem with the freeTDS installation package. Do note that this post is written quite a while back in year 2008. I checked freeTDS and noted that it’s now in version 0.91. I did encounter some issues previously with the different versions having compatibility issues. You may want to try with the 2008 release of freeTDS, version 08.2?

Btw, what OS are you installing in?

Steven

By: Roshan Patil

Roshan Patil — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:46:50 +0000

Hello,

I have installed the all packages which you have mentioned above tutorial, I am facing the some problem with tds

1. When I am hit this command #rpm -qa | grep freetds not get any output.
2. Also problem with libtdsodbc.so not installed on my server.

I hope you will help me regarding this.

Thanks,

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…