Re: Regular, ol' PHP, MS-SQL and Windows 7 [message #176285 is a reply to message #176280] |
Fri, 16 December 2011 13:04 |
Peter H. Coffin
Messages: 245 Registered: September 2010
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:49:01 -0800 (PST), gmark wrote:
> I've tried many configurations, xampp, mamp, ms, something called
> "moompa", and have read dozens of posts and articles missing some
> crucial information or implying that something doesn't really work
> with something else., "XP isn't supported, MySQL works great but MS-
> SQL *should* work fine except I've never done that, X isn't up to
> date, PHP only works to version 5.2, Oracle and SYbase are great, so Y
> should just work, here are a bunch of drivers -- just put them in the
> right folder (wherever that is), I've got a book for 29.95 that'll
> tell you how to do that, never install Z in this folder or it'll be
> cursed forever......" etc., etc......
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> All I want is to install PHP 5.3 on a Windows 7 machine and be able to
> read from a Microsoft SQL database.
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> What's the quickest way to set this up?
Hire a consultant.
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You can lead an idiot to knowledge but you cannot make him think. You
can, however, rectally insert the information, printed on stone
tablets, using a sharpened poker.
-- Nicolai
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