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> Neil Williams wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:47:23 +0100 >> matthewfurborough@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >>> I am trying to get php to talk to an odbc link on Linux but can't find >>> odbc.so to put in the ext directory - have you any idea where I compile >>> this from? >> >> Shouldn't have to compile it. >> >> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/php5-odbc > > I am Matthew's colleague, and although I am off sick > today, I can describe in more detail what we have been > trying to do. > > We inherited a bespoke intranet system set up by a > previous programmer that is based on php running on > Apache on a windows server. The database backend is > Oracle running on redhat linux. > > In a few places we also connect to a mysql database > and in a few other places a couple of mssql databases > via odbc. > > We have found however that the windows version of apache > and oracle don't talk to each other brilliantly and > hold connections open. Because of this Matthew has set > up a test copy the intranet system on the redhat server > and it works in all respects except the odbc connection. > > If we can get it working completely we can convert > one of the other servers over to linux to use as the > new webserver. > > So far we installed unixODBC and freeTDS, and got the > odbc link working from the command line. We just need > to make that link available to the php. > > If Matthew has made more progress with this I wouldn't > know because I have been off sick that last couple of > days. :) Reading and replying to business related email while off sick ?? Sounds like me.. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html