I am trying to connect to SQL Server 2008 (not express) with PHP 5.2.9-2 on Windows XP sp2. I can connect to the remote SQL Server fine from SQL Server Management Studio from the same machine.
My first attempt was this:
$conn = new PDO("mssql:host={$host};dbname={$db}", $user, $pass);
Which gives this error:
PHP Fatal error:
Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message
'SQLSTATE[0100] Unable to connect: SQL Server is unavailable or does not exist.
Access denied. (severity 9)'
Second attempt (found on experts-exchange)
$conn = new PDO("odbc:Driver={SQL Server Native Client 10.0};Server={$host};Database={$db};Uid={$user};Pwd={$pass}",
$user, $pass);
This works, but I can't use PDO::lastInsertId(), which I would like to be able to:
Driver does not support this function: driver does not support lastInsertId()
Do you have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
i'm pretty sure that pdo with the mssql data server type requires dblib to connect. do you have dblib installed on the machine? make sure you can find ntwdblib.dll somewhere in the path on your system. i know this doesn't jive with the error message you're getting, but i'm not sure i trust the error message.
I updated ntwdblib.dll as suggested here and it now works.
Unfortunately I still can't use PDO::lastInsertId() because apparently this driver does not support it either, so it wasn't really worth the hassle. I can however use the equivalent SELECT ##IDENTITY as Id.
That you cannot use SQL Server authentication because only Windows authentication is permitted.
Check if the server is running Mixed mode authentication.
Also check if this SO question helps you.
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I'm using Microsoft Azure SQL for my database and I'm trying to connect it to my project on my localhost using XAMPP. When I try to connect to the database using the connect string they provided:
try {
$conn = new PDO("sqlsrv:server = tcp:app.database.windows.net,1433; Database = mydatabase", "{myusername}", "{your_password_here}");
$conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
}
catch (PDOException $e) {
print("Error connecting to SQL Server.");
die(print_r($e));
}
I keep getting this error:
Error connecting to SQL Server.PDOException Object ( [message:protected] => could not find driver
The error is longer but I think it's related to the driver mentioned at the end. I'm using a mac so any driver I need to install would need to be compatible with it. Thank you for the help in advance.
Azure SQL Database is built on the Microsoft SQL Server engine. So you might consider using pdo-dblib to connect to SQL Server using the PDO on a Mac. You can check out a Stack Overflow question about it here or refer to this setup documentation.
After the driver having been installed, Azure SQL won’t actually accept connection from your local yet. And you might get the following error:
Client with IP address '167.xxx.xxx.xxx' is not allowed to access the
server.
That’s because there is a firewall in the way by default. To enable access, go to the Azure portal, click on All Resources, select your SQL service, click on Firewall in the SETTING menu.
Your client address is conveniently included in the list, so you can just click on Add client IP followed by Save.
Well, when you run your code now, it should connect.
I'm trying to install a PHP5 Web Server on Windows 2000 Server IIS.
It runs ok the php files but the query to my SQL database gives error without any kind of message.
This is my connection:
$conn=odbc_connect("Driver={SQL Server Native Client 10.0};Server=$server;Database=$database;", $user, $password);
In phpinfo the obdc is enabled.
This connection on my WapServer runs good without errors.
The database is on a local server for both machines.
How can I resolve this?
Thanks.
After some try and error I achieved an answer, instead of SQL Server Native Client 10.0 is just SQL Server.
Here is the correct connect code:
$conn=odbc_connect("Driver={SQL Server};Server=$server;Database=$database;", $user, $password);
I am attempting to use PHP's PDO_DBLIB driver to connect to a remote database and am having some issues.
The database is connectable via the same environment using telnet and a SQL client. However, connecting using the following code in PHP does not work:
<?php
$conn = new PDO('dblib:dbname=TestDB;host=RemoteServer;charset=utf8', 'my_user', 'my_pass');
Running this code, whether it be from the command line or Apache, yields the following error:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist (severity 9)'
I am able to connect to the database using the same code on a different web server, which leads me to believe that it's a configuration issue. The php.ini files on the two servers look relatively the same. They each have the same PDO libraries enabled with the same options configured.
Does anyone have any idea why this could be happening?
Turns out that it was a much simpler issue than I thought. For whatever reason, the development server was not using Port 1433 as the default port in the connection and was instead using Port 4000.
I discovered this by enabling the logs in the freetds.conf file and monitoring them as I was making the request.
Also, something to note: The DBLIB extension uses a colon (:) as a separator between the host and the port instead of the comma. Unfortunately, the error that you receive when you use a comma isn't very descriptive, so hopefully someone benefits from this discovery.
Write port into freetds.conf directly for this host:
[RemoteServer]
host = RemoteServer
port = 1433
And leave php-code us is:
$conn = new PDO('dblib:dbname=TestDB;host=RemoteServer;charset=utf8', 'my_user', 'my_pass');
We are using MSSQL server 2008 on Win server 2008 R2 and have installed Apache (2.2.19) and PHP (5.2.17) separately. We have installd the MSSQL module for PHP and usingthe following connection string:
$myc = mssql_connect(Server, SiteDatabaseUsername, SiteDatabasePassword) or die('Can\'t connect to mssql Database Server: '.mssql_get_last_message($myc));
$db = mssql_select_db(SiteDatabaseName, $myc) or die('Can\'t find database: '.mssql_get_last_message($myc));
But it gives us this error:
Warning: mssql_connect() [function.mssql-connect]: Unable to connect to server: localhost\MSSQLSERVER in D:\Apache2.2\htdocs\adminarea\_core.php on line 89
Can't connect to mssql Database Server:
We have used the IP:PORT, localhost\MSSQLSERVER and COMPUTERNAME\MSSQLSERVER but don't seem to be getting anywhere, can anyone help please?
A few things come to mind:
1) Make sure you have the sqlsrv driver package from MS, and make sure you're loading it properly in php.ini (use phpinfo() to verify).
2) If this was a vanilla installation of SQL Server, its likely that only windows authentication is turned on. Open the SQL Enterprise Manager and make sure you have SQL Server Authentication enabled on your database.
3) Make sure that you have enabled network access to SQL Server. I'm not immediately certain whether the new MS drivers use named pipes to communicate with the server, or if they expect that the server will be accessed via the network.
These are the issues I routinely encounter when getting PHP speaking to a new MSSQL server.
I'm trying to connect to my local SQL Server 2008 R2 (have also tried it with 2005, same result exactly) with PHP. I'm using PHP 5.1 which still supports php_mssql and mssql_connect().
for some reason PHP just won't find my server, I can connect via ODBC flawlessly an that's fine, but I would like to connect to SQL Server directly.
I have connected PHP to SQL Server a million times on different servers, this one seems to be the only one giving me issue.
This is my little test code to try and get the connection working.
//define connection garbage
$db['hostname'] = "USER90C6\SQLEXPRESS";
$db['username'] = "user";
$db['password'] = "password";
$db['database'] = "kal_auth";
//connection string
$conn = mssql_connect($db['hostname'], $db['username'], $db['password']);
//does it work? :o
if($conn)
{
echo "works";
}
else
{
echo "fails";
}
The error this code produces:
Warning: mssql_connect() [function.mssql-connect]: Unable to connect to server: USER90C6\SQLEXPRESS in C:\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line 9
fails
Is there something seriously wrong with my setup? or am I missing something.
Did you enable TCP/IP on the server's configuration tool?
Is the firewall blocking any ports you might be using?
Are your MDAC (microsoft data access components) updated?
turn on mssql.secure_connection in php.ini
I think you don't miss anything.. Your connection string seems to be right (you receive a "Unable to connect" error..).
In my opinion, you problem can be a version incompatibility or a user privileges mistake. First of all: look at DLL driver you are using in PHP and check it's compatibility with you MSSQL version.
Maybe can be a good idea a fresh PHP install, with the latest stable release, if it is possible. Give a look at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/mssql.requirements.php
Good luck.