SQLServer-CentOS 6

There are two different drivers you can use to connect to Microsoft SQL. We recommend the sqlsrv driver over dblib/freetds. However dblib/freetds is still supported.

SQLSRV

Note: These instructions were adapted from the official Microsoft PHP SQLSRV repo on Github[1]. Please consult this repo for additional information about this driver and its implementation options.

1. Install the ODBC 13 Driver (only support on Ubuntu 15 and 16)

   • $ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/6/prod.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mssql-tools.repo

   • sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y yum install msodbcsql mssql-tools

   • sudo yum install unixODBC-devel

   • echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile

   • echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

   • source ~/.bashrc

2. Install tools used for PECL

   • $ sudo yum install php71w-devel php71w-pear

3. Update GCC

   • $ sudo wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-2.repo

   • $ sudo yum install devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-binutils devtoolset-2-gcc-c++

4. Configure PECL to use the newer GCC

   • $ sudo pecl config-set bin_dir /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin

5. Install sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsr using PECL
   • sqlsrv on PECL is has been released from development to stable. As of the writing of these instructions, the latest verison 4.0.8.

     • $ sudo pecl install sqlsrv

     • $ sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv

6. Create the ini files

   • $ sudo sh -c 'echo "extension=sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php/7.1/mods-available/sqlsrv.ini'

   • $ sudo sh -c 'echo "extension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php/7.1/mods-available/pdo_sqlsrv.ini'

7. Enable the extensions in PHP

   • $ sudo phpenmod sqlsrv pdo_sqlsrv

8. Restart the PHP-FPM and Nginx or Restart Apache (whichever solution you're using.)
   • Nginx

     • $ sudo service php7.1-fpm restart && sudo service nginx restart

   • Apache

     • $ sudo  service apache2 restart