Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-20 Thread Dennis Gearon
Michael Kimsa wrote: What am I missing? What you are missing, Michael, is that ODBC is for access to a proprietary, commercial product from a monopolist megalith. To use ODBC, on is accessing (pun intended) a non open source database, i.e., you gots to pay M$. This means for someone to write

[PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Costas
What PHP funstions should i use to connect to a MS SQL database. can i use the mysql or the odbc commands ? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators,

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
running the mssql_connect commands. I'd recommend using odbc for linux, and mssql for windows. just my experience. btw, i'm assuming you mean mssql, not mysql. ;p Yoshi - Original Message - From: "Costas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting What PHP funsti

RE: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: Yoshi Melrose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 4:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting Depends on whether or not you're using a windows server or linux server. I've found that it's much easier

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Kimsal
Am I the only one who can not find any free ODBC drivers for Linux? I see countless references to ODBC driver managers, but no ODBC drivers themselves - not free ones anyway. I'll have to second the other poster's comments re: FreeTDS. It works fine, and we're looking at using SQLRelay in

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Kimsal
wrote: have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for odbc, you'll find a few. :) - Original Message - From: "Michael Kimsal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting Am I the on

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
10:54 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting 55 projects found for query 'odbc' Most of these are simply projects that have the word ODBC in their description someplace. There seem to be only a handful of libraries, and some (openlink/easysoft) are commercial offerings. I still

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Hill
: "Michael Kimsal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting Am I the only one who can not find any free ODBC drivers for Linux? I see countless references to ODBC driver managers, but no ODBC drivers t

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Hill
tly that got delayed/shelved. Yoshi Melrose wrote: have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for odbc, you'll find a few. :) - Original Message - From: "Michael Kimsal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:01 AM Sub

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
y, March 19, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting Yoshi, Regardless if you use a commercial or free driver, the only thing you need to compile with is iODBC, as a Driver Manager. You can then drop in any ODBC-compliant driver fairly seamlessly. A Howto is availab

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
We knew what you mean. ;) - Original Message - From: "Andrew Hill" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Yoshi Melrose" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Work" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connectin