Microsoft SQL Server

Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
Mssql Functions
- mssql_bind — Adds a parameter to a stored procedure or a remote stored procedure
- mssql_close — Close MS SQL Server connection
- mssql_connect — Open MS SQL server connection
- mssql_data_seek — Moves internal row pointer
- mssql_execute — Executes a stored procedure on a MS SQL server database
- mssql_fetch_array — Fetch a result row as an associative array, a numeric array, or both
- mssql_fetch_assoc — Returns an associative array of the current row in the result
- mssql_fetch_batch — Returns the next batch of records
- mssql_fetch_field — Get field information
- mssql_fetch_object — Fetch row as object
- mssql_fetch_row — Get row as enumerated array
- mssql_field_length — Get the length of a field
- mssql_field_name — Get the name of a field
- mssql_field_seek — Seeks to the specified field offset
- mssql_field_type — Gets the type of a field
- mssql_free_result — Free result memory
- mssql_free_statement — Free statement memory
- mssql_get_last_message — Returns the last message from the server
- mssql_guid_string — Converts a 16 byte binary GUID to a string
- mssql_init — Initializes a stored procedure or a remote stored procedure
- mssql_min_error_severity — Sets the minimum error severity
- mssql_min_message_severity — Sets the minimum message severity
- mssql_next_result — Move the internal result pointer to the next result
- mssql_num_fields — Gets the number of fields in result
- mssql_num_rows — Gets the number of rows in result
- mssql_pconnect — Open persistent MS SQL connection
- mssql_query — Send MS SQL query
- mssql_result — Get result data
- mssql_rows_affected — Returns the number of records affected by the query
- mssql_select_db — Select MS SQL database

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Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009

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tummen at jgd dot se
05-Sep-2009 01:28


i struggled with sqlsrv_connect for some time, first i had to get native client 2008 to get it to work, 2005 was not enough.



then i got som note that dll was compiled with wrong version, so i had to use test version 1.1 istead of 1.0 of the client and pick the version called php_sqlsrv_53_ts_vc6.dll



but still no success with connect.



finally i spent 7 hours testing things before i found out:



$serverName = "(local)"; ERROR for me



$serverName = "localhost\myinstansofdatabase"; //WOHOOOO

michal dot kocarek at brainbox dot cz
19-Aug-2009 12:05


Microsoft has issued in nearly past Native SQL driver for PHP.

This driver works with MSSQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 servers. Driver is issued as PHP extension. Source codes also available.



The driver supports native conversion to UTF-8, scrollable cursors and other features which this (old) library does not.



For more information and extension download please see

http://www.codeplex.com/SQLSRVPHP

They have also blog on http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlphp/

ccsalway at yahoo dot co dot uk
15-Aug-2009 10:02


Im running PHP 5.3 and used the php development ini and when I use the Microsoft SQL for PHP driver, I get the following error:



[15-Aug-2009 07:48:13] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: sqlsrv: Unable to initialize module

Module compiled with module API=20060613

PHP    compiled with module API=20090626

These options need to match

 in Unknown on line 0

exidas at madnes dot eu
05-Aug-2009 10:43


Hi, i was need some short and simple script to list all tables and columns of MSSQL database. There was nothing easy to explain on the net, so i've decided to share my short script, i hope it will help.





<?php


$all = MSSQL_Query("select TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS order by TABLE_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION");





$tables = array();


$columns = array();





while($fet_tbl = MSSQL_Fetch_Assoc($all)) { // PUSH ALL TABLES AND COLUMNS INTO THE ARRAY





  $tables[] = $fet_tbl[TABLE_NAME];


  $columns[] = $fet_tbl[COLUMN_NAME];





}





$sltml = array_count_values($tables); // HOW MANY COLUMNS ARE IN THE TABLE





foreach($sltml as $table_name => $id) {


 


 echo "<h2>". $table_name ." (". $id .")</h2><ol>";


 


    for($i = 0; $i <= $id-1; $i++) {


    


    echo "<li>". $columns[$i] ."</li>";


    


    }


    


  echo"</ol>";


 


}


?>

hlex dot hlex at gmail dot com
27-Jun-2009 08:04


if your sql server use ANSI encoding and your page use UTF-8, this is method to convert to UTF-8





<?php


function convertAnsi2UTF8($array){


    foreach ($array as  $key=>$item) {


        if(is_array($item)) $array[$key]=convertAnti2UTF8($item);


        else $array[$key]=iconv("TIS-620","UTF-8",$item);         


    }


    return $array;


}


?>

opc dot three at gmail dot com
02-Jun-2009 06:50


After extensive research trying to get PHP on Linux communicating with SQL Server 2005 and 2008 including support for all Unicode, MAX and XML data types I could not find any open source solutions...yes, I spent a lot of time trying to get FreeTDS to work to no avail.



I found one free solution that runs on Windows which is to use the "SQL Server Driver for PHP" provided by Microsoft (http://sql2k5php.codeplex.com). The driver relies on the Microsoft Native Client ODBC drivers for SQL Server 2008 (part of the "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client" which is downloadable from Microsoft) which is why this solution will not work on anything except Windows.



I did find a solution that works for PHP on Linux but it's not free...use the standard PHP::ODBC lib (free) and the Easysoft ODBC driver for SQL Server (not free, but reasonable by Enterprise standards). You can check out the ODBC driver by going here http://www.easysoft.com/products/data_access and looking for "Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver"

thanhha dot phan at yahoo dot com
04-May-2009 05:03


I got a serious problem with Unicode data when working with PHP and MSSQL. I have to say the PHP and MSSQL doesn't seem to be a good combination.



MSSQL is really complicated to work with since the whole server uses a single character encoding[ucs-2]. In order to store unicode information, the column data types must be specified as one of the national character types, NVARCHAR, NCHAR or NTEXT. 



In order to retrieve data saved in unicode format, M$ suggest users to cast columns to binary data.Unfortunately php_mssql extension doesn't support  binary data to be returned in string columns.



My advice is to use FreeTDS driver [it's just an php extension]. This driver seems to handle unicode data better. I can put and receive unicode with casting or change encoding.



A good tutorial "Using freeTDS" can be found here



http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_MSSQL_for_PHP



However, freeTDS is not a perfect solution for unicode data. I'm not able to execute stored procedures with mssql_bind, mssql_bind without having my text changed.

AA
11-Mar-2009 10:26


On windows, do not use this for mssql 2005 of later.  The methods of access are deprecated.



Use the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP instead.

Current link is.

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2005/en/us/PHP-Driver.aspx

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