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 2008 R2 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 7.0.* or above 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
• RedHat + SQL Server + PHP 7
• SUSE + SQL Server + PHP 7
• Windows + SQL Server + PHP 7
• macOS + SQL Server + PHP 7
• Docker

Announcements

Please visit the blog for more announcements.

Build (Windows)

Note: if you prefer, you can use the pre-compiled binaries found in the releases

Prerequisites

You must first be able to build PHP 7.0.* or above without including these extensions. For help with doing this, see the official PHP website for building your own PHP in Windows.

Compile the drivers

The Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server have been compiled and tested with PHP 7.0.* and 7.1.* using Visual C++ 2015 as well as PHP 7.2.0RC* using Visual C++ 2017 v15.0. For details, please read the documentation and/or take a look at the sample build scripts.

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 or Microsoft ODBC Driver 13

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". Note that the precompiled binaries have different names -- substitute accordingly in php.ini.

3. Restart the Web server.

Install (UNIX)

The following instructions assume a clean environment and show how to install PHP 7.x, Microsoft ODBC driver, Apache, and Microsoft PHP drivers on Ubuntu 15, 16, RedHat 7, Debian 8, SUSE 12, and macOS.

Step 1: Install PHP7+

PHP 7.0

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

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

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

Debian 8

sudo su
apt-get install curl apt-transport-https
curl https://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org jessie all" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install -y php7.0 php-pear php7.0-dev php7.0-xml

SUSE 12

sudo su
zypper refresh
zypper install -y php7 php7-pear php7-devel

macOS

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew tap 
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php
brew install php70 --with-pear --with-httpd24 --with-cgi
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

PHP 7.1

Note that there are no PHP 7.1 packages available for Ubuntu 15.10.

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 php7.1-xml

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 re2c gcc-c++ gcc

Debian 8

sudo su
apt-get install curl apt-transport-https
wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
apt-get update
apt-get install -y php7.1 php-pear php7.1-dev php7.1-xml

SUSE 12

sudo su
zypper -n ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/php/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/ devel:languages:php
zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
zypper -n install php7 php7-pear php7-devel

macOS

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew tap 
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php
brew install php71 --with-pear --with-httpd24 --with-cgi
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Step 2: Install Prerequisites

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

Debian 8

sudo su 
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/8/prod.list > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-release.list
apt-get install -y locales
echo "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
exit
sudo apt-get update
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get install msodbcsql
sudo apt-get install unixodbc-dev

SUSE 12

sudo su
zypper ar https://packages.microsoft.com/config/sles/12/prod.repo
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
exit
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y zypper install msodbcsql
sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y zypper install mssql-tools
sudo zypper install unixODBC-devel
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

macOS

brew tap microsoft/msodbcsql https://github.com/Microsoft/homebrew-mssql-release
brew update
brew install --no-sandbox msodbcsql
brew install mssql-tools
brew install autoconf

*Note: Be sure to install PHP 7+ before proceeding to step 3. The Microsoft PHP Drivers for SQL Server will only work for PHP 7+.

Step 3: Install the Microsoft PHP Drivers for SQL Server

*Note: You can run sudo pecl search sqlsrv to search for the latest releases and sudo pecl install sqlsrv-[version] to install a specific version. PECL installs the stable version when version is not specified. Drivers are Mac-compatible starting from 4.1.7preview release.

On Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE systems only, run:

sudo pear config-set php_ini `php --ini | grep "Loaded Configuration" | sed -e "s|.*:\s*||"` system

On macOS, run:

chmod -R ug+w /usr/local/opt/php71/lib/php
pear config-set php_ini /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php.ini system

On all systems, run:

pecl install sqlsrv
pecl install pdo_sqlsrv

Step 4: Install and Configure Apache

PHP 7.0

Ubuntu and Debian

sudo su
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.0 apache2
a2dismod mpm_event
a2enmod mpm_prefork
a2enmod php7.0
echo "extension=sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

RedHat

sudo su
yum install httpd
echo "extension=sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/sqlsrv.ini
echo "extension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlsrv.ini

SUSE

sudo su
zypper install apache2 apache2-mod_php7
a2enmod php7
echo "extension=sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php7/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php7/apache2/php.ini

macOS

(echo "<FilesMatch .php$>"; echo "SetHandler application/x-httpd-php"; echo "</FilesMatch>";) >> /usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/httpd.conf

PHP 7.1

Ubuntu and Debian

sudo su
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.1 apache2
a2dismod mpm_event
a2enmod mpm_prefork
a2enmod php7.1
echo "extension=sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini

RedHat

sudo su
yum install httpd
echo "extension=sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/sqlsrv.ini
echo "extension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" > /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlsrv.ini

SUSE

sudo su
zypper install apache2 apache2-mod_php7
a2enmod php7
echo "extension=sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php7/apache2/php.ini
echo "extension=pdo_sqlsrv.so" >> /etc/php7/apache2/php.ini

macOS

(echo "<FilesMatch .php$>"; echo "SetHandler application/x-httpd-php"; echo "</FilesMatch>";) >> /usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/httpd.conf

Step 5: Restart Apache to load the new php.ini file

Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE

sudo systemctl restart apache2

RedHat

sudo systemctl restart httpd 

Note: On RedHat, SELinux is installed by default and runs in Enforcing mode. To allow Apache to connect to a database through SELinux, run the following command:

sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db 1     

macOS

sudo apachectl restart  

Step 6: Create your sample app

Navigate to your system's document root -- /var/www/html on Ubuntu, Debian, and Redhat, /srv/www/htdocs on SUSE, or /usr/local/var/www/htdocs on Mac. Create a new file called testsql.php. Copy and paste the following code into testsql.php and change the servername, username, password and databasename.

<?php
$serverName = "yourServername";
$connectionOptions = array(
    "Database" => "yourDatabase",
    "Uid" => "yourUsername",
    "PWD" => "yourPassword"
);
//Establishes the connection
$conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionOptions );
if( $conn === false ) {
    die( FormatErrors( sqlsrv_errors()));
}
//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()));
?> 
 <h1> Results : </h1>
 <?php
while ( $row = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $getResults, SQLSRV_FETCH_ASSOC )) {
    echo ( $row['SQL_VERSION']);
    echo ("<br/>");
}
sqlsrv_free_stmt( $getResults );
function FormatErrors( $errors )  
{  
    /* Display errors. */  
    echo "Error information: <br/>";  
  
    foreach ( $errors as $error )  
    {  
        echo "SQLSTATE: ".$error['SQLSTATE']."<br/>";  
        echo "Code: ".$error['code']."<br/>";  
        echo "Message: ".$error['message']."<br/>";  
    }  
}  
?>

Step 7: Run your sample app

Go to your browser and type in http://localhost/testsql.php (http://localhost:8080/testsql.php on Mac) You should be able to connect to your SQL Server/Azure SQL Database.

The drivers are distributed as shared binary extensions for PHP. They are available in thread safe (_ts.so) and-non thread safe (_nts.so) versions. The source code for the drivers is also available, and you can choose whether to compile them as thread safe or non-thread safe versions. The thread safety configuration of your web server will determine which version you need.

Sample Code

For samples, please see the sample folder. For setup instructions, see here.

Limitations

• This release contains the PHP 7 port of the SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers, and does not provide backwards compatibility with PHP 5.
• Binding output parameters using emulate prepare is not supported.
• Linux
  • ODBC 3.52 is supported but not 3.8.
  • Connection using named instances using '' is not supported.
  • Local encodings other than UTF-8 are not supported, and SQLSRV_ENC_CHAR only supports ASCII characters with ASCII code of 0 to 127.

Known Issues

• User defined data types and SQL_VARIANT.
• Binary column binding with emulate prepare (issue#140 )
• Linux
  • The following features are not supported with connection pooling:
    • PDO is only supported with unixODBC 2.3.1.
    • Unicode connection strings
    • sqlsrv_server_info and sqlsrv_client_info return false
    • In certain scenarios a generic error message maybe returned instead of a specific error when pooling is disabled
    • When retrieving data from columns with a data type of XML, varchar(max), nvarchar(max), or varbinary(max) no data maybe returned or the data maybe truncated depending on the length of the data in the source table.

Version number

Version number of PHP drivers follow the semantic versioning:

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH,

• MAJOR version is incremented when an incompatible API changes is made,
• MINOR version is incremented when a functionality in a backwards-compatible manner is added, and
• PATCH version is incremented when backwards-compatible bug fixes are made.

version number MAY have trailing pre-release version to indicate the stability, and/or build meta data.

• Pre-release version is denoted by hyphen followed by preview or rc keyword and may be followed by a series of dot separated identifiers. Production quality releases do not contain the pre-release version. preview has lower precedence than rc. Example of precedence: preview < preview.1 < rc < rc.1. Note that PECL package version does not have the hyphen before pre-release version, due to restrictions in PECL. Example of PECL package version: 1.2.3preview
• Build metadata MAY be denoted by a plus sign followed by 4 digits, such as 1.2.3-preview+5678 or 1.2.3+5678. Build meta data does NOT figure into the precedence order.

Future Plans

• Expand SQL 16 Feature Support (example: Always Encrypted).
• Add More Verification/Fundamental Tests.
• Bug Fixes.

Guidelines for Reporting Issues

We appreciate you taking the time to test the driver, provide feedback and report any issues. It would be extremely helpful if you:

• Report each issue as a new issue (but check first if it's already been reported)
• Try to be detailed in your report. Useful information for good bug reports include:
  • What you are seeing and what the expected behaviour is
  • Can you connect to SQL Server via sqlcmd?
  • Which driver: SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV?
  • Environment details: e.g. PHP version, thread safe (TS) or non-thread safe (NTS), 32-bit &/or 64-bit?
  • Table schema (for some issues the data types make a big difference!)
  • Any other relevant information you want to share
• Try to include a PHP script demonstrating the isolated problem.

Thank you!

FAQs

Q: Can we get dates for any of the Future Plans listed above?

A: At this time, Microsoft is not able to announce dates. We are working extremely hard to release future versions of the driver. We will share future plans as appropriate.

Q: What's next?

A: On July 6, 2017 we released the production release version 4.3.0 of our PHP Driver. We will continue working on our future plans and releasing previews of upcoming releases frequently.

Q: Is Microsoft taking pull requests for this project?

A: Yes. Please submit pull requests to the dev branch and not the master branch.

License

The Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server are licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Code of conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Resources

Documentation: MSDN Online Documentation.

Team Blog: Browse our blog for comments and announcements from the team in the team blog.

Known Issues: Please visit the project on Github to view outstanding issues and report new ones.