This feature was REMOVED in PHP 7.0.0.
Alternatives to this feature include:
These functions allow you to access MS SQL Server database.
This extension is not available anymore on Windows with PHP 5.3 or later.
SQLSRV, an alternative extension for MS SQL connectivity is available from Microsoft: » http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/ff657782.aspx.
The microsoft SQLSRV driver for linux is functional.
According Microsoft, version 4.0 (for Linux):
Ubuntu 15.04 (64-bit)
Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit)
(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/php/system-requirements-for-the-php-sql-driver)
Instalations notes for Linux:
(https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql)
to use MSSQL-connections on Linux with PHP7 you can use PDO with PDO_DBLIB.
Install driver using this command:
sudo apt-get install php7.0-sybase
then simply connect with this:
<?php
$dsn = "dblib:host=" . $host . ":1433;dbname=" . $database;
$dblink = new PDO ($dsn, $user, $pass);
?>
I got problems when i used the hostname, so i switched to the IP of the server.
Later I got problems to insert records into MSSQL-table.
This settings helped me out:
<?php
$dblink->exec("SET ANSI_WARNINGS ON");
$dblink->exec("SET ANSI_PADDING ON");
$dblink->exec("SET ANSI_NULLS ON");
$dblink->exec("SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON");
$dblink->exec("SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON");
?>
SQLSRV is not exactly a "driver": it's a completely different PHP extension to access SQL Server databases and it has its own syntax and features. It's a Windows-only library developed and maintained by Microsoft and it's not related to the built-in SQL Server extension described here.
(Whatever, it's quite feature-rich and it's easy to learn.)