Robert Gonzalez: Building the PHP MS SQL Server extension from source on Ubuntu 8.10

MSSQL on Linux seems like a bit of a black art at times. Today though, Robert Gonzalez has posted an article on how to build the SQL Server extension for PHP from source on Ubuntu which could make life easier:

the fact remained for me that I had to be able to integrate database communication from LAMP to a SQL Server on Windows [...] the only way to make this happen is to build the SQL Server extension from source.

He then goes on to detail the steps required, starting with building the FreeTDS library, building the PHP extension and configuring it all so that it works.

Posted by Rob on 16th March 2010 under Around the web | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Robert Gonzalez: Building the PHP MS SQL Server extension from source on Ubuntu 8.10”

  1. Sandy responded on 16 Mar 2010 at 8:38 am #

    Don’t know if it’s allowed, but here is the link to the article of Robert Gonzalez:

    http://www.robert-gonzalez.com/2009/02/18/building-the-php-ms-sql-server-extension-from-source-on-ubuntu-810/

  2. Rob responded on 16 Mar 2010 at 8:55 am #

    Thanks Sandy,

    Complete linking failure on my part!

    Regards,

    Rob…