<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Okay, I know we are a Linux user group, but I do not know any PHP/MySQL developers (at least not in my office and none of my friends are developers and I am not a developer either). So I turn to you folks who live and breathe this stuff.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">I have a new project (web app), where I have to run PHP/MySQL on Solaris 10 and I need to connect to MS-SQL download data to upload it to my local MySQL and many other madness.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">On Linux, it is very simple, all packages and libraries are available. But on Solaris, it is a pain. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">I am using SUN Webstack (SAMP), but it does not come with FreeTDS or mssql.so or unixodbc. I could get that from the OpenSource community (<a href="http://blastwave.org">blastwave.org</a>) But I don't know who to make these two connect or talk to each other. Meaning, I do not know how to make Webstack-PHP use unixodbc/<a href="http://mssql.so/FreeTDS">mssql.so/FreeTDS</a> from CSW(blastwave).</span> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">I have tried adding the mssql.so directory on to php.ini under extension_dir, but no luck.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Please shed some light, I have spent more than 5 hours last night searching for this alone and have turned out nothing.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
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