[PHP-DB] php and mssql on seperate servers
I'm new to PHP and having issues. We have seperate servers for them. We can use ODBC to test the connection and it works fine. However, when we try to run the site we get a message of *** Error: Unable to Connect to Database. Please Try Again Later. *** We are using a custom app that we aren't getting a lot of assistance with. The relevant lines in the app are: define(DBHOST, //database server name); define(DBUSER, user); define(DBPASS, password); if(!$dbCon=mssql_connect(DBHOST,DBUSER,DBPASS)) $error = Unable to Connect to Database. Please Try Again Later.; Can anyone assist a noob php user? thanks -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DB] Re: php and mssql on seperate servers
Rick Taylor wrote: I'm new to PHP and having issues. We have seperate servers for them. We can use ODBC to test the connection and it works fine. However, when we try to run the site we get a message of *** Error: Unable to Connect to Database. Please Try Again Later. *** We are using a custom app that we aren't getting a lot of assistance with. The relevant lines in the app are: define(DBHOST, //database server name); define(DBUSER, user); define(DBPASS, password); if(!$dbCon=mssql_connect(DBHOST,DBUSER,DBPASS)) $error = Unable to Connect to Database. Please Try Again Later.; Can anyone assist a noob php user? thanks Thanks for removing any extraneous/irrelevant code. Nice, well-laid-out question. The obvious follow-up-question presents itself, so forgive me for asking if I'm underestimating, but you didn't mention whether or not you were quoting it verbatim, or whether you had replaced your database host, userid, and password from the code before you pasted it here. Just in case it's the really obvious problem, you should be aware that you are expected to fill in those lines as relevant to your MSSQL server. For example, if the MSSQL serer was living on a server called TORFOX001 (or //TORFOX001 in the MS local-network naming format), and you'd set it up with a userid zippy with password pinh34d, those lines should be modified to read: define(DBHOST, //TORFOX001); define(DBUSER, zippy); define(DBPASS, pinh34d); -P -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Re: php and mssql on seperate servers
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Peter Westergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Taylor wrote: I'm new to PHP and having issues. We have seperate servers for them. We can use ODBC to test the connection and it works fine. However, when we try to run the site we get a message of *** Error: Unable to Connect to Database. Please Try Again Later. *** We are using a custom app that we aren't getting a lot of assistance with. The relevant lines in the app are: define(DBHOST, //database server name); define(DBUSER, user); define(DBPASS, password); if(!$dbCon=mssql_connect(DBHOST,DBUSER,DBPASS)) $error = Unable to Connect to Database. Please Try Again Later.; Can anyone assist a noob php user? thanks Thanks for removing any extraneous/irrelevant code. Nice, well-laid-out question. The obvious follow-up-question presents itself, so forgive me for asking if I'm underestimating, but you didn't mention whether or not you were quoting it verbatim, or whether you had replaced your database host, userid, and password from the code before you pasted it here. Just in case it's the really obvious problem, you should be aware that you are expected to fill in those lines as relevant to your MSSQL server. For example, if the MSSQL serer was living on a server called TORFOX001 (or //TORFOX001 in the MS local-network naming format), and you'd set it up with a userid zippy with password pinh34d, those lines should be modified to read: define(DBHOST, //TORFOX001); define(DBUSER, zippy); define(DBPASS, pinh34d); -P -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php You can also set the IP address of the MSSQL server as the host -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
