mysql communicate with mssql on different server via php - php

Question

I have mysql on a linux server which I own having CentOS installed in it. I want to fetch data from another windows server having mssql database.
I need to create a php script that can get the values from mssql server and insert it into mysql server.
I have tried installing FreeTDS also PDO but still I am unable to connect (not sure if I have installed it properly). The error messages I get are Could not Connect to the server and drivers not found.
How can I check if I have installed freetds and PDO drivers correctly.
Basic Diagram of what I am trying to do:
Server A (Mumbai) {Linux Cent OS, FreeTDS and PDO installed} ---------> Server B (Delhi) {Windows, MSSql}
I want to get data from Server B to Server A.
locale is "en_US.UTF-8"
locale charset is "UTF-8"
using default charset "UTF-8"
62Error 20009 (severity 9):
Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist
OS error 110, "Connection timed out"
There was a problem connecting to the server
root#server [~]# tsql -C
Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script)
Version: freetds v0.91
freetds.conf directory: /usr/local/etc
MS db-lib source compatibility: no
Sybase binary compatibility: no
Thread safety: yes
iconv library: yes
TDS version: 5.0
iODBC: no
unixodbc: yes
SSPI "trusted" logins: no
Kerberos: no
How can I update TDS version form 5 to 7
Please guide.

Answer 1

Use ADODB Connection
$conn = new COM ("ADODB.Connection", NULL, CP_UTF8) or die("Cannot start ADO");
$connStr = "PROVIDER=SQLOLEDB;SERVER=myServer;UID=myUser;PWD=myPass;DATABASE=myDB";
$conn->open($connStr); //Open the connection to the database
$SQL="SELECT id, .........................";
$res=$conn->execute($SQL);
while (!$res->EOF) //carry on looping through while there are records
{
$id=$res->Fields('id')->value;
}
http://php.net/manual/en/class.com.php
Now go to Example #2 COM example (2)

Answer 2

Well, you can use the mssql select querys, set a variable in php with the result from the mssql query, and then do a mysql insert query to insert it into your database
$link = mssql_connect($server, 'sa', 'phpfi');
mssql_select_db('php', $link)
$query = mssql_query('SELECT [id] FROM [php].[dbo].[userlist]');
while ($row = mssql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
$row['id']
$con=mysqli_connect("127.0.0.1","root","pass","db");
mysqli_query($con,"INSERT INTO tablname VALUES('$id')");
}
Give this a try.
Of course you have to customize it to fit your needs.

Answer 3

Configure FreeTDS
This is a perfect tutorial for configuring FreeTDS. Every thing from basic..superb tutorial.
Thanks to Hugo Brown.