Laravel 5.3, CentOS, PHP 7 - How to connect MSSQL?

Question

I have a project ( laravel5.3, php7, centos7 ) pulling some data from MSSQL (not my choice btw). So, on XAMPP I was able to get it running successfully with ease using pdo_sqlsrv , however thats only for windows.

So how do I get it running on CentOS?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Solved it myself after a lot of research.

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Ive followed this guide to get sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv (step 2, Terminal):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/php-rhel

sqlsrv was fine and could be seen in phpinfo, however pdo_sqlsrv couldnt be found.

Further, if you run $ php -v you get the error

Unable to load dynamic library '******/pdo_sqlsrv.so': undefined symbol: php_pdo_register_driver in Unknown on line 0"

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This let to major chase on how to fix it. Turns out the pdo.so was loading after pdo_sqlsrv.so as pdo.so loads from /etc/php.d/ dir and I placed pdo_sqlsrv.so in the php.ini (as recom by the microsoft link). This I found by reading here https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/151

So I moved the following lines to /etc/php.d/pdo.ini :

extension=/usr/lib64/php/modules/sqlsrv.so
extension=/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_sqlsrv.so

Problem solved