Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 09/20/07 00:37

Lars Eighner wrote:
> In our last episode,
> <1190234753.028021.204250@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, the lovely and
> talented Matt White broadcast on comp.lang.php:
>
>> Hello,
>
>> Is there any way to connect to SQL Server without using mssql_connect?
>> The installation of PHP I'm using was not compiled with the MSSQL
>> extensions. Thanks.
>
> Aye, thar be plentiful ways, lad, but none o' them be very good.
>
> Ye can query t' mesql client directly and parse t' output for yourself. It
> takes some fancy riggin' in the backticks, matey, but it can be done. And
> likewise ye can hail perl DBI or C routines, if'n yur amind to.
>
> Recompile your PHP, lad, for reinventing t' wheel be pointless.
>
Argh... ITLAP day?

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