In the past, I have managed with SuSE 7.1 to MSSQL 7.0 on PPC, but that was more than 2 years ago. I keep seeing this unixODBC come up and now, so in a new environment in different job, I'm trying to do as the subject suggests. This is how I did it previously:
http://www.turnpike420.net/linux2/Apache_PHP_FreeTDS_MSSQL7.txt Which I honestly can't stand this method and had to do it on SuSE at the time b/c standard installs were configured for it, and I don't think SuSE had a package thing like RPM, but if it did, doesn't matter b/c I didn't know. Anyway, I'm using FC1, I have php and php-odbc packages installed, unixODBC is installed, as well as Apache 2.x. PHP works great with Apache right now, this is out of the box install, nothing config'd away from default. I would like to think with this combination I can talk to the MSSQL 8.0 (2000) database from a PHP web application. An alternate method I'm trying is using the FreeTDS tool that I used back in the first example. FreeTDS now comes with 'tsql' tool which I can use and successfully connect to the MSSQL 2K db. I don't know how to use tsql, so other than successful connect, I don't know how far I can go. At least it proves I'm not firewalled off form the db. Any tips or experience making this happen would be great. David M. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
