Posted by Toby A Inkster on 04/05/07 09:20

sgottenyc wrote:

> Has anyone had any success running SQL Server Express on Vista with
> Apache via PHP?

No, but I've done this on Linux. The code you posted looks fine. Turn on
all error reporting at the top of your file:

ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

and see what error messages you get. It's likely to be a problem with your
setup, not the code.

> -I searched google for solutions. In addition to the above, one
> suggestion was made that a file called ntwdblib.dll needs to be
> upgraded. I believe this is an IIS specific file since I don't have
> it on my system, so it shouldn't apply in my case.

You definitely need this file. See the "Requirements" section on this
page:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.mssql.php

I don't think SQL Server Express includes this file, but it does come with
SQL Server 2000. It's probably also in SQL Server 2000 SP4, but that's
quite a big download. Ooh look... it seems someone's uploaded that file
here:

http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/1106430/ntwdblib.dll

I wonder who that was.

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