Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server

Reviewed: Microsoft Drivers 3.0.1 for PHP for SQL Server (May 12, 2013)

jediplex — Mon, 13 May 2013 03:41:30 GMT

Rated 1 Stars (out of 5) - Will only give the rating after I tried it.

New Post: Update For PHP 5.5

laurin1 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:25:09 GMT

Are there plans for this driver to be complied for PHP 5.5? If so, what is the timeline?

Commented Issue: Cannot backup a database and retrieve multiple results in one statement [22419]

MaxiWheat — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:29:36 GMT

In our application, we need to be able to backup a database from PHP and also retrieve data from SELECTs in the same statement. Actually, we run all this code in a Stored Procedure in SQL Server 2008 but we were able to reproduce the same exact problem with a simple query. Our application is made to work in UTF-8 and display html using this encoding. What happens here is that PHP is crashing in this particular case, which is very bad. We found out that if we remove 'CharacterSet' => 'UTF-8', the issue is gone, the database gets backed up and data is returned (but I guess utf-8 strings are messed up if any) and we think it has something to do with UTF-8 encoding of error messages, as reported in a Stackoverflow question here (which I also commented) : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9621858/sqlsrv-php-driver-and-utf-8-encoding-issue-with-error-messages

Here is the source code to reproduce the error :

<?php
sqlsrv_configure('WarningsReturnAsErrors', 0);

$result = array();

$connInfo = array(
"Database"=>"myDB",
"UID"=>"sa", // using sa to demonstrate it's not a permission issue
"PWD"=>"saPassword",
'APP' => 'MyApp',
'LoginTimeout' => 5,
'MultipleActiveResultSets' => true,
'ReturnDatesAsStrings' => true,
'CharacterSet' => 'UTF-8'
);

$conn = sqlsrv_connect('myserverhost', $connInfo);

$query = "BACKUP DATABASE [SomeDB]
TO DISK = 'C:\\Backup\\test_backup.bak'
WITH
NOFORMAT,
INIT,
NAME = 'super backup',
NOREWIND,
NOUNLOAD,
SKIP;
SELECT 1;
SELECT 2;";

$stmt = sqlsrv_prepare($conn, $query);

sqlsrv_execute( $stmt );

// Fetch first result set
while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $stmt, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$result[] = $row;
}

// Fetch all next result sets
while($rs = sqlsrv_next_result($stmt)) {
$result[] = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $stmt, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC);
}

sqlsrv_free_stmt($stmt);
sqlsrv_close($conn);
?>

If more details are needed I can provide them.

Hope the issue gets resolved soon
Comments: Here is what is returned by sqlsrv_client_info : Array ( [DriverDllName] => sqlncli11.dll [DriverODBCVer] => 03.80 [DriverVer] => 11.00.2100 [ExtensionVer] => 3.0.3421.0 ) And this is what comes from sqlsrv_server_info : Array ( [CurrentDatabase] => myDB [SQLServerVersion] => 10.00.5500 [SQLServerName] => myserverhost) Yes I know that messages are not retrieved by sqlsrv_fetch_array, and I'm not really interested in retrieving them, but what happens here, is that it makes PHP crash. What makes PHP actually crash is the second call to sqlsrv_next_result (in the while loop) and we don't really explain it, so we think it's a bug. We run Zend Server 5.6 (PHP 5.3.14) on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition Service Pack 1

Commented Issue: Cannot backup a database and retrieve multiple results in one statement [22419]

robertjohnson — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:40:21 GMT

In our application, we need to be able to backup a database from PHP and also retrieve data from SELECTs in the same statement. Actually, we run all this code in a Stored Procedure in SQL Server 2008 but we were able to reproduce the same exact problem with a simple query. Our application is made to work in UTF-8 and display html using this encoding. What happens here is that PHP is crashing in this particular case, which is very bad. We found out that if we remove 'CharacterSet' => 'UTF-8', the issue is gone, the database gets backed up and data is returned (but I guess utf-8 strings are messed up if any) and we think it has something to do with UTF-8 encoding of error messages, as reported in a Stackoverflow question here (which I also commented) : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9621858/sqlsrv-php-driver-and-utf-8-encoding-issue-with-error-messages

Here is the source code to reproduce the error :

<?php
sqlsrv_configure('WarningsReturnAsErrors', 0);

$result = array();

$connInfo = array(
"Database"=>"myDB",
"UID"=>"sa", // using sa to demonstrate it's not a permission issue
"PWD"=>"saPassword",
'APP' => 'MyApp',
'LoginTimeout' => 5,
'MultipleActiveResultSets' => true,
'ReturnDatesAsStrings' => true,
'CharacterSet' => 'UTF-8'
);

$conn = sqlsrv_connect('myserverhost', $connInfo);

$query = "BACKUP DATABASE [SomeDB]
TO DISK = 'C:\\Backup\\test_backup.bak'
WITH
NOFORMAT,
INIT,
NAME = 'super backup',
NOREWIND,
NOUNLOAD,
SKIP;
SELECT 1;
SELECT 2;";

$stmt = sqlsrv_prepare($conn, $query);

sqlsrv_execute( $stmt );

// Fetch first result set
while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $stmt, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC)) {
$result[] = $row;
}

// Fetch all next result sets
while($rs = sqlsrv_next_result($stmt)) {
$result[] = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $stmt, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC);
}

sqlsrv_free_stmt($stmt);
sqlsrv_close($conn);
?>

If more details are needed I can provide them.

Hope the issue gets resolved soon
Comments: What version of the driver are you using? I tried something similar to your code in Japanese, German, Russian and English and they all worked, with the correct encoding, and with your SELECT statements at the end. Do you know that the sqlsrv warning messages are *not* retrieved using sqlsrv_fetch_array? If you need more help, please ask a question on the forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldriverforphp/threads There is a post in the forum about how to do a plain backup: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da/sqldriverforphp/thread/e0908b2f-4afa-4626-830d-9683486186c8

Created Issue: Cannot backup a database and retrieve multiple results in one statement [22419]

MaxiWheat — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:56:09 GMT

Commented Issue: Problem with sqlsrv_next_result/lastinsertid after insert on table with trigger [22418]

lordlamer — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:45:55 GMT

Hi, i have a table with an insert trigger defined. I made an insert on this table and want to get the inserted id. So i made this: $sql = 'INSERT INTO "content" ("parent", "name", "content", "created_by", "changed_by", "create_date", "change_date") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() as Current_Identity'; $params = array(1, 'TTTTTTTTTTTTT', 'TTTTTTTTTTTTT', 0, 0, '20121128 20:01:57', '20121128 20:01:57'); $stmt = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql, $params); To get the Current_Identity i need to make two sqlsrv_next_result. If i delete the trigger it works with only one sqlsrv_next_result. This sounds like a bug for me. Attached is an example script. I used php 5.4 with sqlsrv 3.0.1 regards, Frank
Comments: Hi, i solved my problem with SQL NOCOUNT. See: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldriverforphp/thread/5ae29309-bb15-4a02-971e-17387f8a2821 But if i see other database systems the behaviour is different here. So it sounds like a bug first and my solution is tricky. For me it is a bug

Edited Issue: Problem with sqlsrv_next_result/lastinsertid after insert on table with trigger [22418]

lordlamer — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:45:55 GMT

Created Issue: Problem with sqlsrv_next_result/lastinsertid after insert on table with trigger [22418]

lordlamer — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:57:58 GMT

Hi,

i have a table with an insert trigger defined. I made an insert on this table and want to get the inserted id. So i made this:
$sql = 'INSERT INTO "content" ("parent", "name", "content", "created_by", "changed_by", "create_date", "change_date") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() as Current_Identity';
$params = array(1, 'TTTTTTTTTTTTT', 'TTTTTTTTTTTTT', 0, 0, '20121128 20:01:57', '20121128 20:01:57');

$stmt = sqlsrv_query( $conn, $sql, $params);

To get the Current_Identity i need to make two sqlsrv_next_result. If i delete the trigger it works with only one sqlsrv_next_result.
This sounds like a bug for me.

Attached is an example script.

I used php 5.4 with sqlsrv 3.0.1

regards,
Frank

Reviewed: Microsoft Drivers 3.0.1 for PHP for SQL Server (Kas 01, 2012)

erdem123 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:53:42 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - deasfasdasdde asda

Closed Issue: Encoding Hash Table - Zend Hash Table error [21609]

icosahedron — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:59:33 GMT

The following errors are occuring when at least two users tries to query a SQL Server 2005 database using sqlsrv (php_sqlsrv_52_ts_vc6.dll) with php 5.2.9 and apache 2.2 AT THE SAME TIME (same functionality). Sometimes it works, sometimes it breaks...

- An error occurred creating or accessing a Zend hash table
- Fatal: Error retrieving encoding from encoding hash table
Comments: Closing since the user found a solution. The problem was likely related to their usage of SQL Server itself.

Reviewed: Microsoft Drivers 3.0.1 for PHP for SQL Server (十月 08, 2012)

clleon2001 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:50:39 GMT

Rated 4 Stars (out of 5) - testtesttest

Reviewed: Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 (Oct 01, 2012)

mindplay — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:25:35 GMT

Rated 1 Stars (out of 5) - why, WHY would you remove the download of the ONE version that works with my server!? sometimes it seems like all you people do is figure out new ways to make life harder for developers. To anyone else who waste time searching all of microsoft.com for this file, here it is: http://microsoft-drivers-for-php-for-sql-server.software.informer.com/2.0/download/

Reviewed: Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 (Oct 01, 2012)

mindplay — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:21:06 GMT

Reviewed: Microsoft Drivers 3.0.1 for PHP for SQL Server (九月 27, 2012)

VincentLai — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:07:44 GMT

Rated 4 Stars (out of 5) - why can't I find this dll that can work find on XP???

Created Issue: PHP sqlsrv 3.0.1 Driver: sqlsrv_field_metadata returns column name as char*, so unicode column names can't be fetched correctly [22417]

WRead — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:17:27 GMT

Customer uses unicode column names:

CREATE TABLE Greek
(
[γεια σας κόσμο] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL,
[привет мир] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL,
[こんにちは世界] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL
);

calling sqlsrv_field_metadata converts names to ANSI char strings:

Result 3 Row 2:Array
(
[0] => hello world
[?e?a sa? ??s�?] => hello world
[1] => hello world
[?????? ???] => hello world
[2] => hello world
[???????] => hello world
)

Here are some of the source code changes we would need to make to fix this:

Core_sqlsrv.h:

sqlsrv_malloc_auto_ptr<SQLCHAR> field_name;

…change to:

sqlsrv_malloc_auto_ptr<SQLWCHAR> field_name;

core_stmt.cpp:

meta_data->field_name = static_cast<SQLCHAR*>( sqlsrv_malloc( SS_MAXCOLNAMELEN + 1 ));

try {

core::SQLDescribeCol( stmt, colno + 1, meta_data->field_name.get(), SS_MAXCOLNAMELEN, &field_name_len,

…change to:

meta_data->field_name = static_cast<SQLWCHAR*>( sqlsrv_malloc( SS_MAXCOLNAMELEN + 1 ));

try {

core::SQLDescribeColW( stmt, colno + 1, meta_data->field_name.get(), SS_MAXCOLNAMELEN, &field_name_len,

stmt.cpp:

core::sqlsrv_add_assoc_string( *stmt, field_array, FieldMetaData::NAME,

reinterpret_cast<char*>( core_meta_data->field_name.get() ), 0 TSRMLS_CC );

…change to:

core::sqlsrv_add_assoc_string( *stmt, field_array, FieldMetaData::NAME,

reinterpret_cast< wchar_t*>( core_meta_data->field_name.get() ), 0 TSRMLS_CC );

Pdo_stmt.cpp:

// Set the name

column_data->name = reinterpret_cast<char*>( core_meta_data->field_name.get());

…change to:

column_data->name = reinterpret_cast< wchar_t*>( core_meta_data->field_name.get());

New Post: Where can i download version 2.0?

jguerin — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:42:52 GMT

Please take a look at this thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldriverforphp/thread/2b4b88d6-5d7b-4446-83ef-955a611f08c4

Cheers,

Jonathan

New Post: Where can i download version 2.0?

Dreamrg — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:36:53 GMT

I'm searching the net for SQLSRV20.EXE. I cannot find it anywhere.

It appears Version 3.0 does not work with Windows 2003 R2 and SQL 2005.

Please advise.

Commented Issue: Encoding Hash Table - Zend Hash Table error [21609]

jguerin — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:02:09 GMT

The following errors are occuring when at least two users tries to query a SQL Server 2005 database using sqlsrv (php_sqlsrv_52_ts_vc6.dll) with php 5.2.9 and apache 2.2 AT THE SAME TIME (same functionality). Sometimes it works, sometimes it breaks...

- An error occurred creating or accessing a Zend hash table
- Fatal: Error retrieving encoding from encoding hash table
Comments: Hi, Do you happen to have a small snippet of (working) code to reproduce this problem? Thanks, Jonathan

Reviewed: Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP, version 1.0 (八月 07, 2012)

aison — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:35:03 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - sqlserver 2005 2.0 give me a err mseeage like this: This extension requires either the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client (SP1 or later) or the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client ODBC Driver to communicate with SQL Server

Reviewed: Microsoft Drivers 3.0.1 for PHP for SQL Server (七月 18, 2012)

acrozou — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:03:31 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - like it, it's great work!