[UPHPU] Help with Database Connection

[Ray Hunter]

> I was wondering if I could enlist the help of a couple of UPHPU's brightest
> minds.
> 
> I'm working on a site for a realtor, hosted in a shared Linux environment
> with MySQL as the backed database. It all works as it should, except that I
> need to be able to create a connection to a SQL Server database that holds
> all of the MLS Data. The problem is that the hosting service has not
> installed any of the libraries etc. to allow me to set up that connection -
> mssql_query and that kind of thing.
> 
> Does any one know of a way whereby I can establish a connection without this
> library? All I need to be able to do is get a return from a couple of SELECT
> queries.

without those libraries you will need some other layer that you can use like an
odbc connection (still might require libs) or a jdbc connection. You might need
to have that data pushed to your site instead of you pulling the data.

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ray