Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3625 mails)

[Joe Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cody Nelson wrote:
> We are in a situation where we need PHP/Pear to support MS SQL.
> Swaying from this is not an option.
>
> We are standardizing on one linux distro, so we purchased the
> enterprise version of Suse 10.1. (This place uses windows mostly with
> few linux and unix) The web developers use ubunto, and redhat, and
> this is a complete non issue.  Searching the internet I see this is a
> common problem with Suse as they claim best Microsoft/windows
> compatibility but do not compile database support for one of the major
> databases used.
>
> So I am hoping someone can walk me through getting PHP to support MS
> SQL?  If it is a recompile, I will need help with that since i have
> not recompiled anything since redhat 5.1, and the last time I tried
> with suse 9.1 I gave up.

We also have linux web/php server and a mandate to make it work with ms 
sql - we ended up going with the easysoft odbc drivers -

http://www.easysoft.com/products/data_access/odbc-sql-server-driver/index.html

It sucks to be stuck with ms sql, but the easysoft drivers were the best 
 way to deal with a bad situation. The manager has since decided to 
move to mysql, a year after the fact. Too bad they didn't go that route 
to begin with.

Joe
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