# Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server
**Welcome to the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server PHP 7**
The Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server are PHP extensions that allow for the reading and writing of SQL Server data from within PHP scripts. The SQLSRV extension provides a procedural interface while the PDO_SQLSRV extension implements PDO for accessing data in all editions of SQL Server 2005 and later (including Azure SQL DB). These drivers rely on the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server to handle the low-level communication with SQL Server.
This release contains the SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers for PHP 7 with improvements on both drivers and some limitations (see Limitations below for details). Upcoming release(s) will contain more functionality, bug fixes, and more (see Plans below for more details).
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##Get Started
* [**Ubuntu + SQL Server + PHP 7**](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/php-ubuntu)
* [**RedHat + SQL Server + PHP 7**](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/php-rhel)
* [**Windows + SQL Server + PHP 7**](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/php-windows)
##Announcements
**December 19, 2016**: We are delighted announce that production release for PHP Linux Driver for SQL Server is available. PECL packages (4.0.8) are updated with the latest changes, and Linux binaries (4.0.8) compiled with PHP 7.0.14 are available for Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and RedHat 7.2. For complete list of changes please visit [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/blob/dev/CHANGELOG.md) file.
Please visit the [blog][blog] for more announcements.
## Build (Windows)
Note: if you prefer, you can use the pre-compiled binary found [HERE](https://github.com/Azure/msphpsql/releases)
####Prerequisites
You must first be able to build PHP 7 without including these extensions. For help with doing this, see the [official PHP website][phpbuild] for building your own PHP on Windows.
####Compile the drivers
1. Copy the sqlsrv and/or pdo_sqlsrv source code directory from this repository into the ext subdirectory.
2. Run `buildconf.bat` to rebuild the configure.js script to include the driver.
3. Run `configure.bat --with-odbcver=0x0380 and the desired driver options (as below) [plus other options such as --disable-zts for the Non Thread Safe build]` to generate the makefile. You can run `configure.bat --help` to see what other options are available.
* For SQLSRV use: `--enable-sqlsrv=shared`
* For PDO_SQLSRV use: `--enable-pdo=shared --with-pdo-sqlsrv=shared`
4. Run `nmake`. It is suggested that you run the entire build. If you wish to do so, run `nmake clean` first.
5. To install the resulting build, run `nmake install` or just copy php_sqlsrv.dll and/or php_pdo_sqlsrv.dll to your PHP extension directory.
This software has been compiled and tested under PHP 7.0.8 using the Visual C++ 2015 compiler.
## Install (Windows)
####Prerequisites
- A Web server such as Internet Information Services (IIS) is required. Your Web server must be configured to run PHP
- [Microsoft ODBC Driver 11][odbc11] or [Microsoft ODBC Driver 13][odbc13]
####Enable the drivers
1. Make sure that the driver is in your PHP extension directory (you can simply copy it there if you did not use nmake install).
2. Enable it within your PHP installation's php.ini: `extension=php_sqlsrv.dll` and/or `extension=php_pdo_sqlsrv.dll`. If necessary, specify the extension directory using extension_dir, for example: `extension_dir = "C:\PHP\ext"`
3. Restart the Web server.
## Install (Linux)
Following instructions shows how to install PHP 7.x, Microsoft ODBC driver, apache, and Microsoft PHP drivers on Ubuntu 15, 16 and RedHat 7. To see how to get PHP SQLSRV drivers running on Debian, please visit [Wiki](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Dockerfile-for-getting-pdo_sqlsrv-for-PHP-7.0-on-Debian-in-3-ways). Note that Debian is not officially supported and this instruction hasn't been tested in our test lab.
### Step 1: Install PHP (unless already installed)
#### PHP 7.0
**Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 15.10**
sudo su
sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all \ndeb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
apt-get update
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-fpm php-pear php7.0-dev mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt php-mbstring php7.0-xml re2c gcc g++
**Ubuntu 16.04**
sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get -y install php7.0 mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt php-mbstring php-pear php7.0-dev php7.0-xml re2c gcc g++
**RedHat 7**
sudo su
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php70
yum update
yum install php php-pdo php-xml php-pear php-devel re2c gcc-c++ gcc
#### PHP 7.1
**Ubuntu 16.04**
sudo su
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get -y install php7.1 mcrypt php7.1-mcrypt php-mbstring php-pear php7.1-dev
**RedHat 7**
sudo su
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-7.rpm epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php71
yum update
yum install php php-pdo php-xml php-pear php-devel
### Step 2: Install pre-requisites
**Ubuntu 15.10**
sudo su
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/15.10/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list
exit
sudo apt-get update
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get install msodbcsql mssql-tools
sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
**Ubuntu 16.04**
sudo su
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list
exit
sudo apt-get update
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get install msodbcsql mssql-tools
sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
**RedHat 7**
sudo su
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/mssql-release.repo
exit
sudo yum update
sudo yum remove unixODBC-utf16-devel #to avoid conflicts
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
*Note: On Ubuntu, you need to make sure you install PHP 7 before you proceed to step 2. The Microsoft PHP Drivers for SQL Server will only work for PHP 7+.
### Step 3: Install Apache
####PHP 7.0
**Ubuntu**
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.0
sudo apt-get install apache2
**RedHat**
sudo yum install httpd
####PHP 7.1
**Ubuntu**
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.1
sudo apt-get install apache2
**RedHat**
sudo yum install httpd
### Step 4: Install the Microsoft PHP Drivers for SQL Server
sudo pecl install sqlsrv
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv
*Note: it installs the stable version, for specific version you should set the version. For example, `sudo pecl install sqlsrv-4.0.8`
### Step 5: Add the Microsoft PHP Drivers for SQL Server to php.ini
####PHP 7.0
**Ubuntu**
echo "extension=/usr/lib/php/20151012/sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension=/usr/lib/php/20151012/pdo_sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension=/usr/lib/php/20151012/sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
echo "extension=/usr/lib/php/20151012/pdo_sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
**RedHat**
echo "extension= /usr/lib64/php/modules/sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/sqlsrv.ini
echo "extension= /usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlsrv.ini
####PHP 7.1
**Ubuntu 16.04**
echo "extension=/usr/lib/php/20160303/sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension=/usr/lib/php/20160303/pdo_sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension=/usr/lib/php/20160303/sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.1/cli/php.ini
echo "extension=/usr/lib/php/20160303/pdo_sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.1/cli/php.ini
**RedHat**
echo "extension= /usr/lib64/php/modules/sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/sqlsrv.ini
echo "extension= /usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlsrv.ini
### Step 6: Restart Apache to load the new php.ini file
**Ubuntu**
sudo service apache2 restart
**RedHat**
sudo apachectl restart
*Note to RedHat users: SELinux is installed by default and runs in Enforcing mode. To allow Apache to connect to database through SELinux, do this `sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db 1`
### Step 7: Create your sample app
Navigate to `/var/www/html` and create a new file called testsql.php. Copy and paste the following code in tetsql.php and change the servername, username, password and databasename.
"yourDatabase",
"Uid" => "yourUsername",
"PWD" => "yourPassword"
);
//Establishes the connection
$conn = sqlsrv_connect($serverName, $connectionOptions);
//Select Query
$tsql= "SELECT @@Version as SQL_VERSION";
//Executes the query
$getResults= sqlsrv_query($conn, $tsql);
//Error handling
if ($getResults == FALSE)
die(FormatErrors(sqlsrv_errors()));
?>