FreeTDS is used to provide Sybase and MSSQL-specific TDS protocol
instructions to the databases. ODBC is a different protocol (from my
understanding).
If you're trying to use ODBC stuff, you need an ODBC driver. I think FreeTDS
might have this/allow this, but I don't think it's intended to do that.
Scott Fletcher wrote:
> I can't user mssql_connect, I'm using odbc_connect! Most of the websites
> for my company use odbc_connect. Because we sometime move the website from
> unix to windows and back. So, it is more reliable that way.
>
> Scott
>
> "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> >
> > Scott Fletcher wrote:
> >
> > > Hi! I am installing the FreeTDS so that unix machine can use PHP to
> > > connect to MS-SQL Server using odbc_connect.
> >
> > I assume you mean mssql_connect, not odbc_connect.
> >
> >
> > > However, the direction is
> > > pretty tricky and it isn't much of a help in clarification. I have been
> > > wonder if I am suppose to use the sybase environment variable and
> library
> > > path. From what I understand is that I don't need to use those because
> it
> > > is for SYBASE only. All I can do is to compile FreeTDS with the
> > > "./config --with-sybase=../freetds-0.51" and it would take care of that
> for
> > > PHP use.
> > >
> >
> > You might have to set the sybase variable, but I don't think I did.
> > It wasn't too much harder than ./configure ./make ./make install,
> > then compiling PHP with --with-sybase=/usr/local/freetds
> >
> > Did this not work?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Am I wrong? Please help me out!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Scott
> > >
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