MSSQL connection from PHP on FreeBSD - php

Question

As an extension of my question: Remote connect to SQL Server Standard Edition from PHP/FreeBSD
I'm trying to get our FreeBSD/Apache/PHP server to be able to query our WinServer2003/SQL-Server-2000 box. Please note that this is not for a public system, only for a internal reporting function - so performance is not the key at this point.
The initial question helped me prepare the MSSQL server for connection, and is now getting some kind of response from it. However I haven't got a successful connection to it.
I have tried PDO_dblib, mssql (FreeTDS) - haven't tried ODBC. I would prefer if I could get PDO to work, so that's what I'm aiming at here - and it's also the most succesfull of the two I tried.
My PHP script that utilizes PDO:dblib
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('log_errors', 1);
ini_set('error_log', dirname(__FILE__) . '/error_log.txt');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$servername = '192.168.1.51';
$port = '1433';
$serverdsn = $servername.':'.$port;
$username = 'webserver';
$password = '123456';
$dbname = 'oneServer_staging';
$sqlstatement = 'SELECT * FROM ordersp';
try
{
$pdo = new PDO ("dblib:host=".$serverdsn.";dbname=".$dbname,$username,$password);
}
catch (PDOException $e)
{
echo "Failed to get DB handle: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n";
exit;
}
exit;
The result of this PDO:dblib script when running it in browser:
Failed to get DB handle: SQLSTATE[28000] Login incorrect. (severity 9)
And ind the MSSQL server's application log I find this:
EDIT after comment about FreeTDS
My PHP script that utilizes mssql_connect() / FreeTDS
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('log_errors', 1);
ini_set('error_log', dirname(__FILE__) . '/error_log.txt');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$username = 'webserver';
$password = '123456';
$dbname = 'oneServer_staging';
$sqlstatement = 'SELECT * FROM ordersp';
$link = mssql_connect('MYMSDN', $username, $password);
if (!$link) {
die('Something went wrong while connecting to MSSQL');
}
The result of this mssql/FreeTDS script when running it in browser:
Warning: mssql_connect(): Unable to connect to server: MYMSDN in
/home/www/[..]/httpdocs/public/default/philip/oneserver-db-test.php
on line 17 Something went wrong while connecting to MSSQL
/usr/local/etc/freetds.conf
[global]
# TDS protocol version
tds version = 4.2
initial block size = 512
# uses some fixes required for some bugged MSSQL 7.0 server tha
# return invalid data to big endian clients
# NOTE TDS version 7.0 or 8.0 should be used instead
; swap broken dates = no
; swap broken money = no
# Whether to write a TDSDUMP file for diagnostic purposes
# (setting this to /tmp is insecure on a multi-user system)
dump file = /tmp/freetds.log
; debug flags = 0xffff
# Command and connection timeouts
; timeout = 10
; connect timeout = 10
# If you get out of memory errors, it may mean that your client
# is trying to allocate a huge buffer for a TEXT field.
# (Microsoft servers sometimes pretend TEXT columns are
# 4 GB wide!) If you have this problem, try setting
# 'text size' to a more reasonable limit
text size = 64512
# A typical Microsoft SQL Server 2000 configuration
[MYMSDN]
host = 192.168.1.51
port = 1433
tds version = 8.0
client charset = UTF-8
The file /tmp/freetds.log shows nothing when executing the script, however if i use # tsql -C command, it's updated.

Answer 1

Does the following lines of code work?
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('log_errors', 1);
ini_set('error_log', dirname(__FILE__) . '/error_log.txt');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$username = 'webserver';
$password = '123456';
$dbname = 'oneServer_staging';
$servername = '192.168.1.51';
if (!$link = mssql_connect($servername, $username, $password)) {
exit('Error: Could not make a database connection using ' . $username . '#' . $servername);
}
if (!mssql_select_db($dbname, $link)) {
exit('Error: Could not connect to database ' . $dbname);
}
?>

Answer 2

Do you need this line in your freetds.conf file? Are you sure both sides are using UTF-8?
client charset = UTF-8
Here's the code I use to connect PHP to MSSQL from Ubuntu machines to Windows SQL Server, I don't know if it will help you or not but this code is up and running successfully right now so I know it works in our environment...
PHP:
<?php
try{
$con = new PDO("dblib:dbname=$dbname;host=$servername", $username, $password);
}catch(PDOException $e){
echo 'Failed to connect to database: ' . $e->getMessage() . "\n";
exit;
}
?>
/etc/odbc.ini
# Define a connection to the MSSQL server.
# The Description can be whatever we want it to be.
# The Driver value must match what we have defined in /etc/odbcinst.ini
# The Database name must be the name of the database this connection will connect to.
# The ServerName is the name we defined in /etc/freetds/freetds.conf
# The TDS_Version should match what we defined in /etc/freetds/freetds.conf
[mssqldb]
Description = MSSQL Server
Driver = freetds
Database = MyDB
ServerName = mssqldb
TDS_Version = 8.0
/etc/odbcinst.ini
# Define where to find the driver for the Free TDS connections.
[freetds]
Description = MS SQL database access with Free TDS
Driver = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsodbc.so
Setup = /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/odbc/libtdsS.so
UsageCount = 1
/etc/freetds/freetds.conf
[global]
# If you get out-of-memory errors, it may mean that your client
# is trying to allocate a huge buffer for a TEXT field.
# Try setting 'text size' to a more reasonable limit
text size = 64512
# Define a connection to the MSSQL server.
[mssqldb]
host = mssqldb
port = 1433
tds version = 8.0