How to use SQL Server connection in Laravel?

Question

I got a working project made in Laravel 3 that I have to switch to MsSQL Server (not my call though, sniff...) and I don\'t understand the Laravel configuration on this data

Answer 1

That's what I did to connect my Laravel app to MS SQL Server:

1. sudo apt-get update

2. sudo apt-get install php5-sybase

if you try to install php5-mssql it will install php5-sybase anyway, it is “Sybase / MS SQL Server module for php5”.

this will make Laravel use the dblib driver instead of sqlsrv.

check out this file for reference Illuminate\Database\Connectors\SqlServerConnector.php.

3. open this file: /etc/freetds/freetds.conf

under [global] section and under tds version = 4.2

add tds version = 8.0            (without ; semi column at the beginning of the line)

and add client charset = UTF-8 just under the above line            (without ; semi column at the beginning of the line)

This lets the driver encode all the data in utf-8 and avoid the strange characters in data

the file will look like this:

[global]

        # TDS protocol version

;       tds version = 4.2

        tds version = 8.0

        client charset = UTF-8

4. create file locales.conf in this directory /etc/freetds and past the following inside it:     (this allow correct parsing of dates with SQL Server).

---

[default]

    date format = %Y-%m-%d %I:%M:%S.%z

[en_US]

    date format = %b %e %Y %I:%M:%S:%z%p

    language = us_english

    charset = iso_1

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5. edit the php.ini file

first find the file with php -i | grep php.ini

then open the file and search for mssql.charset       (it will probably be like disabled like this         ; mssql.charset = "ISO-8859-1"     )

make it mssql.charset = "UTF-8"   <>

save and exit

6. now restart your server (nginx or apache or php-fpm)

7. of course you know that you need to set the database config to use sqlsrv by default 'default' => 'sqlsrv', and add your credentials.

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OTHER METHODS:

you can use ODBC driver to connect

here’s a nice package https://github.com/ccovey/odbc-driver