PHP Connect to MS SQL Database - php

Question

I have a website locally hosted on my computer. My server is using PHP 5.6.21. I am trying to connect to a SQL Database on another computer Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
I have installed the PHP extensions, PHP_sqlsrv_56_ts and PHP_sqlsrv_56_nts. I have enabled them in the php.ini:
extension=php_sqlsrv_56_nts.dll
extension=php_sqlsrv_56_ts.dll
I have tried to connect using this:
<?php
$serverName = "serverName\sqlexpress, 1542"; //serverName\instanceName, portNumber (default is 1433)
$connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"dbName", "UID"=>"userName", "PWD"=>"password");
$conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo);
if( $conn ) {
echo "Connection established.<br />";
}else{
echo "Connection could not be established.<br />";
die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}
?>
And I tried using this:
<?php
$connection_string = 'DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=<Hector\SQLEXPRESS>;DATABASE=tempdb';
$user = 'sqltestclient';
$pass = 'paSSword';
$connection = odbc_connect( $connection_string, $user, $pass ) or die("Unable to connect to server");
echo $connection.' '.$user.' '.$pass;
?>
But neither work, the top wont load the page and the bottom just sasys unable to connect.
Im not sure what Im doing wrong

Answer 1

I was able to solve my problem using the information from this link.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/access-microsoft-sql-server-2000-using-php/

Answer 2

May be this will help:
$serverName = "SERVER\\NAME";
$connInfo = array("Database"=>"stockdata");
$conn = sqlsrv_connect($serverName, $connInfo);
if($conn){
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users";
$res = sqlsrv_query($conn,$sql);
$arr = sqlsrv_fetch_array($res,SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC);
print_r($arr);
}else{
echo "Connection could not be established.<br />";
die( print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}
If you are using Windows Authentication no need to provide credentials ,otherwise you will get exception