Last updated: Fri, 05 Sep 2008

sybase_connect

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

sybase_connect — Opens a Sybase server connection

Description

resource sybase_connect ([ string $servername [, string $username [, string $password [, string $charset [, string $appname ]]]]] )

sybase_connect() establishes a connection to a Sybase server.

In case a second call is made to sybase_connect() with the same arguments, no new link will be established, but instead, the link identifier of the already opened link will be returned.

The link to the server will be closed as soon as the execution of the script ends, unless it's closed earlier by explicitly calling sybase_close().

Parameters

servername: The servername argument has to be a valid servername that is defined in the 'interfaces' file.
username: Sybase user name
password: Password associated with username .
charset: Specifies the charset for the connection
appname

Return Values

Returns a positive Sybase link identifier on success, or FALSE on failure.

ChangeLog

Version	Description
4.0.2	The `charset` parameter was added.

Examples

Example #1 sybase_connect() example


<?php
$link = sybase_connect('SYBASE', '', '')
        or die("Could not connect !");
echo "Connected successfully";
sybase_close($link);
?>


freetds is a great, free tool to access your sybase tables with PHP. The setup can be a bit tricky. Use the following to put the environment variables that you need: 

<?php

putenv ("SYBASE=/usr/local/freetds");

putenv ("SYBPLATFORM=linux");

putenv ("LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/freetds/lib");

putenv ("LC_ALL=default");

putenv ('PATH=\"/usr/local/freetds/bin:$PATH\"');

putenv ("DSQUERY=SYBASE");

?>

Even if not using freetds, you'll need those env vars to make any sybase connection work. Another option is to just load them into your box from the command line.

23-Aug-2002 12:09


Set the appname using the 5th optional parameter:


http://lxr.php.net/source/php-src/ext/sybase_ct/php_sybase_ct.c#713





sybase_connect(


  $host= 'host',


  $user= 'user', 


  $pass= 'pass', 


  $charset= NULL, 


  $appname= 'myapp'


);

Martin dot Man at seznam dot cz
15-Nov-2001 02:06


if you are going to use DSO version of php compiled with sybase support, check that apache is not linked against libdb2. In such case call to dbopen from libsybdb.so will result in a call to dbopen from libdb2.so which is loaded earlier that libsybdb.so, as a workaround either recompile apache without db2 support or link php staticaly with libsybdb.a.







the symptom of wrong behavior is that sybase_connect does not return neither 0 nor meaningful value, it simply returns nothing...

naguiwerian at netscape dot net
18-Sep-2001 01:31


To connect from win32 to Sybase on Unix , you can use sybase open client and make sure to use the hostname in sybase_connect as it is defined in the OC sql.ini file .. it worked that way !

bkw at weisshuhn dot de
06-Apr-2000 09:38


To decrease the level of messages sent back from the dbserver (such as 'changed context...') try:





     sybase_min_server_severity(11);

gregory at bnl dot gov
05-Feb-2000 12:35


If you are having trouble connecting to your sybase database on unix, try checking that the SYBASE environmental variable is set correctly. I was getting connection errors until I found out that this variable had not been set through the server.

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