Ok, heres the problem, I've loaded the extension .dll in the php.ini and it's recognising the mssql_connect(); function - I get no errors about that, the problem is I can't seem to connect to any MS data sources at all. I have a remote computer on a network connected to the server thats running SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 we have tried both, on this machine and after installing PHP and the files on the server. Whenever I try to connect to the server using a hostname such as one of the server names WEB1 - it simply stops responding and eventually times out. I put in a piece of debugging code and it keeps assuring me that it could not connect to the SQL server. If I try and use the IP of the machine instead of timing out the browser crashes and gives me the error that 'the application misbehaved by not sending a complete set of headers - the headers that it did send were:' and theres nothign after that, I'm assuming the server returned nothign then. I've spoken to several people around the office and in other companies that know SQL and ASP and other languages and noone can shed any light, the best suggestion I can come up with so far is the DB drivers are not working properly. We've tested the connection on the server using a .udl and it says the link can be created fine. I have the SQL Server client tools installed on my machine with the correct .dlls as described in the PHP manual, and as the server has a full install of SQL Server it also has the required .dlls. I am absolutely stumped on this one and it's pretty much causing a lot of grief.
Any ideas would be much appriciated!
