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By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:19:25 +0000

I was able to compile the mssql module with freetds 0.91 by doing the following:
Open php_mssql.h:
Comment out the line that says “typedef unsigned char *LPBYTE;”
Then try running “make” and see how it works!

By: Kamran

Kamran — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:39:00 +0000

I’m trying to use this guide to install the mssql extension but I’m stuck. I get the following errors when I run the ‘make’ command in the mssql directory:

/root/php-5.3.8/ext/mssql/php_mssql.h:68: error: redefinition of typedef ‘LPBYTE’
/usr/local/freetds/include/sqlfront.h:35: error: previous declaration of ‘LPBYTE’ was here
/root/php-5.3.8/ext/mssql/php_mssql.c: In function ‘php_mssql_do_connect’:
/root/php-5.3.8/ext/mssql/php_mssql.c:767: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
/root/php-5.3.8/ext/mssql/php_mssql.c: In function ‘php_mssql_get_column_content_without_type’:
/root/php-5.3.8/ext/mssql/php_mssql.c:1120: warning: passing argument 1 of ’spprintf’ from incompatible pointer type
make: *** [php_mssql.lo] Error 1

By: Charles Patterson

Charles Patterson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:17:54 +0000

I’ve had nothing but problems using mssql, however using odbc setup Linux/PHP talks to MSSQL without issue. Here’s how I set mine up: http://members.cox.net/midian/howto/phpMSSQL.htm

By: kitchen

kitchen — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:36:15 +0000

great article. what versions of sql server have been successfully tested with freetds?

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By: Mark Foster

Mark Foster — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:05:12 +0000

This was very helpful. Thanks.

By: KlaasV

KlaasV — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:51:57 +0000

I’ve been using this method for a while, but when I set up a new server, with more recent Debian, Apache and PHP 5.2.6 versions, I had problems with WHERE-clauses in mssql_query SELECT statements.
After three months searching the problem still isn’t solved, but I read that in PHP 5.3 support for mssql extension is dropped completely.
Is there an alternative method?

By: John from Buffalo

John from Buffalo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:02:30 +0000

I am going down the path of MSSQL + PHP to avoid replication of data push through the MySQL 3.5.1 driver (which seems to be pretty badass under Windows 2003 server for us). This way I can pull directly from MSSQL vs. relying on my stored procedures that add a crazy level of complexity to the equation.

Compiled my php configuration rather simply by adding the –with-mssql (which is a switch under the ./configure –help | grep “mssql” lookup). So, rather happy with this.

Stop the server, restarted and it seems to be at least loaded. Time to go back and see if it actually worked, but the exploration in your article seems to be lacking down some examples to those who compile from source. Maybe giving an example for those who compile that can add the switch on the config.nice options after you’ve already done a compile once before .. might be nice.

Otherwise good article thus far.