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Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Michelle — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:17:07 -0000

A couple of other additions for the rank tyros:

The debian build directory in PowerPC 6.06.x is:
/usr/bin/php5-5.2.4/debian

If editing with vi, while in the rules file, use the command "yy" to YANK the mysql line and the "p" command to copy it again. Edit the copied line. This will help preserve formatting, whitespace, tabs, returns, linefeeds, etc.

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

James — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:24:09 -0000

This was extremely helpful, thank you for taking the time to share it :)

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Jacob Boyko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:04:42 -0000

so I poked and prodded and got it sorted out:

I entered:
$ sudo apt-get install libsnmp-dev

...then tied this again:
$ sudo apt-get build-dep php5

...and followed the rest of the instructions and everything worked! I was very glad to have an excellent guide. Thanks Robert!

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Jacob Boyko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:58:04 -0000

Hi, problem with the `apt-get build-dep php5` step:
(I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 server with LAMP installed - this is a fresh install, so there's not much else on it.) Linux is a pretty fresh install in my head too.

When I run `$ sudo apt-get build-dep php5` I get the following errors:
E: Package libsnmp10-dev has no installation candidate
E: Failed to process build dependencies

I had ignored this and proceeded with the rest of the instructions (which are well written and easy to follow - thanks!) so when I ran `sudo dpkg-buildpackage` I got the following:

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: [...list omitted...]
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.

Any suggestions?

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Andre Luiz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:57:03 -0000

Hi I am having problems to use FreeTDS do I need to have a ODBC installed to use with PHP or not?

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Bryan Gruneberg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:24:14 -0000

Thanks !

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Joro — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:49:06 -0000

Hey, many, MANY thanks! How else would I know that Debian ships PHP w/o MSSQL support? Website now works great!

Regarding the "And go get something to eat." part: On my machine (2 CPUS, 350MHz each, 320MB of RAM) the "eating" part takes over 3 (nearly 4) hours :)))

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Joe — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:48:39 -0000

This worked for me with Ubuntu 7.04. Thank you so much!

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

troels — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:37:20 -0000

I'm getting the following error message:
tkn@tkn-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get source php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for php5
tkn@tkn-laptop:~$

Any ideas?
(I'm running Ubuntu 7.10)

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Ian Tomkinson — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:24:20 -0000

Thanks for the tips, this method works perfectly on Debian etch as you'd expect. I just switched from Fedora Core 6 and let me assure you, the process for introducing MSSQL functions was just as fiddly! However thanks to your article I was able to find the answer in minutes.

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Keith — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:13:28 -0000

Aiden, make sure that you don't have any extra spaces or line feeds right after you insert the text in the rules file. I had the same problem using one text editor. I used a different text editor (gedit) and tried it again and it worked.

Great article, by the way. I've been trying to figure out how to compile GMP with PHP5 in Ubuntu to create a PHP5-GMP package, and this worked perfectly.

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Justin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:01:00 -0000

Someone please help :)

I'm getting "configure: error: recode extension can not be configured together with: imap mysql". Apt-get remove php5-imap says the package is not installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

squibbon — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:55:49 -0000

is this also application to sybase. i'm having problem with sybase_connect. with this solution, do i have to install sybase openclient or the ase packages?

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

panthar — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:51:43 -0000

@Sam Alex:

I noticed that you installed "dpkg -i php5-mysql_5.1.6-1ubuntu2.4_i386.deb".
You need to install the .deb with "mssql" in the name, not "mysql", if you need to get mssql functionality.
It gets built into its own package, not bundled in with mysql.
Hope this solves your problem!

-Robert

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Sam Alex — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:02:15 -0000

Hmm, it jumbled up my code. I pulled the sample code http://us.php.net/mssql , search for comments by "marcos1979ar at yahoo dot com dot ar".

Thanks --

Sam

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Sam Alex — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:59:49 -0000

Hi Everyone. I went through this tutorial, and all went as expected. However after installation, I ran the following:

-- Installed the newly compiled packages
dpkg -i php5-mysql_5.1.6-1ubuntu2.4_i386.deb
dpkg -i php5-mysqli_5.1.6-1ubuntu2.4_i386.deb
-- Restarted Apache services
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This is all on Ubuntu 6.10 Server setup with LAMP during installation. Next I tried to run the follow script to test this, of course I plugged in my server's IP Address and login info, plus a valid database and table.:

", "sa", "");
mssql_select_db ("", $con);
$sql= "SELECT * FROM ";
$rs= mssql_query ($sql, $con);
echo "The field number one is: ";
echo mssql_result ($rs, 0, 0);
mssql_close ($con);
?

And now here's what I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mssql_connect() in /home/webuser/public_html/test.php on line 4

Any suggestions? Is there anyway to to verify the new packages are installed correctly?

Thanks for any suggestions.
Sam Alexander
samalex@gmail.com

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Ben — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:53:06 -0000

Worked perfectly on a Debian Etch amd64 install too.
Great Job.

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Nicolas — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:52:07 -0000

Great Job!
Thanks a lot for this, very useful guide and easy to follow up.

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

panthar — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:36:53 -0000

Thank you Matt and Robin for catching the extra blank line in the control file. When I first wrote this, it worked as in this article, but when updating my PHP installation on 6.10 more recently, I came across the same issue. I just forgot to update it in this article - thank you for reminding me, and I have fixed the code above.

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Robin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:49:03 -0000

Just to emphasise a point Matt makes above. I recently rebuilt php and at first I got an error when compiling. It turns out that you musn;t have a blank line in the section added to the control file after the first line Package: php5-mssql
The next line must follow without an intervening blank line, and not as shown in the article as below.

Package: php5-mssql

Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${php:Depends}, php5-common (= ${Source-Version})
..............

Remove the blank line and it works.
Perhaps the article could be amended to make this clear.

I would also add my voice the the question, why can't Ubuntu build this into the source as standard? It is a pain (even with the excellent instructions of this article) to have to go back and recompile it every so often to allow for other upgrades to the php5 package.

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Aidan — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:27:14 -0000

When i compile i get this error:
[CODE]

=/usr/share/file/magic.mime --with-exec-dir=/usr/lib/php5/libexec \
--without-mm \
--with-curl=shared,/usr \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--with-gd=shared,/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-jpeg-dir=shared,/usr \
--with-xpm-dir=shared,/usr/X11R6 \
--with-png-dir=shared,/usr \
--with-freetype-dir=shared,/usr \
--with-ttf=shared,/usr \
--with-t1lib=shared,/usr \
--with-ldap=shared,/usr \
--with-mhash=shared,/usr \
--with-mssql=shared,/usr \
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type:
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking build system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... config.sub: missing argument
Try `config.sub --help' for more information.
configure: error: /bin/sh ../config.sub failed
make: *** [configure-apache2-stamp] Error 1
[/CODE]

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

msch — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:05:36 -0000

Thanks for the instructions, best I've found. Anyone know why debian/ubuntu don't include the module by default? Seems that would _really_ solve the issue

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

alan blount — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:29:21 -0000

Thanks for these instructions!

This is a much *cleaner* way than I was going to do it... compiling all from source and manually figuring out the dependencies... say 3-6 hours of work getting things right, as opposed to 15-30 minutes.

Once again - much thanks!

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Klemens — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:48:57 -0000

Hello,

I did exactly as you describe above, but while running "dpkg-buildpackage" I get the following error:

configure: error: unrecognized option: -â€“with-mssql=shared,/usr
Try `../configure --help' for more information.
make: *** [configure-apache2-stamp] Error 1

Any suggestion?

Thank you!

Re: HOWTO: PHP with MSSQL on Ubuntu 6.06

Stephen — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:50:36 -0000

great stuff, just finished my 4th build of this on a different machine over the past 6 weeks!

Matt: If you move up to the parent folder the php5-mssql extension should have been built anyway, just install it with dpkg -i, worked perfectly for me!