[PHP-DB] Re: php and mssql on seperate servers

2008-04-25 Thread Rick Taylor
Thanks for the help everyone.   It is now fixed.  They guy that originally 
set it up used the //servername.  I removed the // and it works fine, until 
it got to the next error.   :)


This is going to take a while.  I'm sure I'll be back with more questions.


"Peter Westergaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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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 



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Re: [PHP-DB] Re: php and mssql on seperate servers

2008-04-24 Thread Bastien Koert
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
>
>
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You can also set the IP address of the MSSQL server as the host
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[PHP-DB] Re: php and mssql on seperate servers

2008-04-24 Thread Peter Westergaard

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

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