PHP extensions

[Ross]

Hi, kind of a newbie question here.

I've worked with PHP before on an apache server, but now I'm trying to use it on an IIS server. I installed the binary from php.net and it works. However, I need to use the MSSQL extensions, and that's not working.

This is what I've done so far:

• Uncommented the php_mssql.dll line in php.ini
• Set the Extension directory to be my php directory
• Looked all around trying to find php_mssql.dll... found two different copies. One gives me a memory error (memory cant be read) and closes my browser upon trying to test mssql php code. The other pops an error message up saying "unable to load dynamic library php_mssql.dll" upon executing ANY php script, whether it uses mssql functions or not.

My thought is that maybe these files aren't the correct php_mssql.dll files... they have different file sizes, etc.

So my question would be... where can you download the official dll extension files?

[piersk]

1. Check in the php.ini file for the line that says something like: extension_dir = c:/php/extensions. Make sure the location is correct (might not necessarily be the same as Ive quoted) and also that they are forward slashes rather than back slashes.

2. Did you download the windows install file rather than the binaries? If you did, then go back the PHP site and download the binaries .zip file (about 5Mb in size).