installing for mssql on linux/php?

Karl McAuley wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I'm wanting to add mssql to my PHP setup, to get some data off a
> Windows 2000 box. I'm runing Redhat 7.3 and PHP 4.1.2.
>
> Following the advice here: http://uk.php.net/function.mssql-connect
> about using phpize (first comment).
>
> I downloaded the php 4.1.2 source from php.net and went into ext/mssql
>
> I then ran phpize, which produced this error:
>
> Cannot find config.m4.
>
> This is beacuse It's absent from the directory.
>
> After some dark muttering I downloaded php 4.2.2. Looking in that
> ext/mssql there IS a config.m4. Can I copy this into the 4.1.2
> version? Or can I use the mssql.so that'd be produced by 4.2.2?
>
> I don't want to upgrade the server to the latest version, or recompile
> PHP, unless its really, really, really, absolutley necessary. Its a
> live server, constantly in use. I'd have to work on a Saturday.

I recomend you do recompile the whole PHP and update to 4.3.x, you will get a
lot less problems on this way (you may need to do some changes in your php.ini
after upgrade to get all pages to work).


//Aho

Yes, its starting to look that way. Not too keen with that solution on
the live server though.

Thank.


"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote:

>
>I recomend you do recompile the whole PHP and update to 4.3.x, you will get a
>lot less problems on this way (you may need to do some changes in your php.ini
>after upgrade to get all pages to work).
>
>
> //Aho

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