PHP ODBC Connection to a SQL server from Ubuntu

Question

My host is a ubuntu machine 20.04 I'm using PHP 7.4 with PDO_ODBC installed

The goal is to be able to access to a SQL database who is using Windows credential on a ubuntu machine.

This is my /etc/odbc.ini file :

[msodbcsql]
Description=SQL Server driver
Driver=/usr/lib/libmsodbcsql-17.so

[pds_database]
Driver=msodbcsql
Description=PDS database access
Server=<server ip>\PDS
Port=1433

When I run tsql -S pds_database -U <domain>\\<user> -P<passqord> I get this promt : 1>

I presume my pds_database connection is setup correctly ...

now, This is my PHP code :

$db = new PDO ("odbc:pds_database", '<domain>\<user>', '<password>');

I get the following error exception :

"SQLSTATE[IM002] SQLConnect: 0 [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found and no default driver specified"

Do you have any idea what I missed during this connection ?

PS : /usr/lib/libmsodbcsql-17.so is a symbolic link to /opt/microsoft/msodbcsql17/lib64/libmsodbcsql-17.7.so.2.1 What is mean I'm running a libmsodbcsql 64 bits like my PHP

Answer 1

I've the exactly same problem with you

and I'm gonna share my full code about connection .php

<?php

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

// define variables;
/* $servername = "";
$username = "";
$password = "";
$dbname = ""; */

// Create connection
try {

    // THIS IS OLD WRONG CODE, PLEASE CHECK BELOW
    $DSN = 'odbc:Driver={ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server};
        Server=192.168.X.X,1234\\MSSQLSERVER;Database=db_um_1699;
        Trusted_Connection=yes';

    $dbconn = new PDO($DSN, 'username', 'userPassword');
    
    $dbconn -> setattribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING);
    $dbconn -> setattribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

    "BRIDGE BUILD! \n <hr />";// Check connection

}catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo "Broke: ". $e->getMessage();
}

And yet I'm still using old way to connecting which is a mess and so difficult to operated.

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12-16-2021 edit:

I was changed odbc:driver to odbc:FreeTDS that worked!

first assume we all had odbc drivers; we need to edit odbc.ini file in /etc/odbcinst.ini

[FreeTDS]
Description = ODBC for FreeTDS
Driver64    = /usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so
Setup64     = /usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so
FileUsage   = 1

next try to build the connection:

// Create connection
try {

    // CHANGE ODBC to FREETDS
    $DSN = 'odbc:Driver={FreeTDS};
        Server=192.168.X.X,1234\\MSSQLSERVER;Database=db_um_1699;
        Trusted_Connection=yes';

    $dbconn = new PDO($DSN, 'username', 'userPassword');
    
    $dbconn -> setattribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING);
    $dbconn -> setattribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

    "BRIDGE BUILD! \n <hr />";// Check connection

}catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo "Broke: ". $e->getMessage();
}

hope this information would be anyone who was same problem I had

but this still maybe not the good enough for all kind similar problem since our database really aged which was MS-sql-2008