Hi, My name is Jim Taitt, I am running openSUSE 10.3 x86 where I am trying to build a Website which has to connect to a remote Windows 2003 server over the internet and connect to MSSQL Server 2000 to process orders. I have been able to do this using freetds and the php-mssql library which comes packaged in Fadora and RHEL, but my whole system of choice is SUSE. I am a programmer with a little knowledge of linux administration, so please forgive me if my questions are not expertly written. As far as I can see, OpenSuse does not have the php-mssql module as part of their distributions. I have compiled from source freetds and am able to make a test connection to the remote server from SUSE 10.3. The part I need help with is how to compile and add php-mssql to openSuse 10.3 ? If I were to compile php from scratch, I would add the configure flag with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds. It would be easy if I could just compile the module by itself and just add it to my existing setup of SUSE, but dont know what flags to choose for configure. Or better yet, could I get a file with the list of flags to set as they are in the current compilation of php 5.2.5 as they are in the current compilation of SUSE 10.3 , so I can compile my own complete version of PHP and have the confidence it is configured correctly to use in a production environment by using the same flags as used to setup openSuse 10.3. Oh yes, I have never worked with RPMs outside of Yast so I hope what I am asking makes sense in the above context. Thanks to all for any input. I have been working on this for a couple of weeks and am a really concerned that I get it configured correctly . Jim Taitt Tater.tots@verizon.net Huntington Beach, CA. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org