在Ubuntu 12.04 LTS上从CakePHP 3连接到SQL Server

Question

My setup was working on Windows but I recently switched to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and now it won't connect. When I load a page where I need to talk to SQL Server, I get this error:

Database driver Cake\\Database\\Driver\\Sqlserver cannot be used due to a missing PHP extension or unmet dependency

It is obvious that CakePHP can't find the SQL Server PDO driver.

I found many old tutorials to help me but I took the most recent (I want absolutely to be able to use PDO with my CakePHP website). This is the tutorial I followed .

Using the terminal, I can access the database with this command

sqlcmd -S my.sql.server.com -U username

What do I need to do to connect to this sql server database from my ubuntu install with CakePHP 3.x?

Answer 1

Update (October 17th 2016):

Microsoft recently released a preview version (on their msphpsql repo) of pdo_sqlsrv and sqlsrv for Linux . It worked successfully for me on a Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus) virtual machine running php7.

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Original answer:

As @AD7six said:

CakePHP's sql server driver is for using PDO_SQLSRV; If you need to use ODBC, there isn't one in the core.

PDO_SQLSRV is working if you are on Windows . CakePHP has a driver that support it natively.

If you want to talk to a SQL Server Database from Linux , you have to use the ODBC driver . You can install the driver using this tutorial which helped me a lot. After that, you will be able to connect to your database using PDO (not CakePHP):

try {
  $query = new PDO(
    "odbc:Driver={SQL Server};Database=[Database name]; Server=[Hosame]",
    "[Username]", 
    "[Password]");
} catch (PDOException $e) {
  echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

Thanks everybody for your help. It could be great to find/code a CakePHP 3 database driver for odbc.

Answer 2

The new version of CakePHP supports PDO-sqlsrv which is new the MS driver that supports PHP 7 and higher.

http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-sqlsrv.php

It also allows you to connect to Azure. Example:

//Establishes the connection $conn = new PDO( "sqlsrv:server=$serverName ; Database = $database", $uid, $pwd);