Codeigniter: How to setup connection to a SQL server (2008)

Question

I\'ve spent many days on this task, and I can\'t see the end until now. In the past day I managed to install sqlsrv driver on my PHP environment successfully but now when I

Answer 1

I've had the same trouble you've had about a year ago. Have a look at the replies here, there are some great suggestions from people in there: CodeIgniter MSSQL connection

Also, a thread was posted a few days ago here: CI connect to SQL SERVER - check out my answer over there as well, since it's solved the problem for that particular developer.

Answer 2

I had the same problem solved by setting

$ db ['default'] ['pconnect'] = FALSE;

Answer 3

Make 1. $db['default']['pconnect'] = FALSE;. Then go to system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php

function db_pconnect()
    {
        //$this->db_connect(TRUE);
        return $this->db_connect(TRUE);
    }

and

function affected_rows()
{
    //return @sqlrv_rows_affected($this->conn_id);
    return @sqlsrv_num_rows($this->result_id);
}

Answer 4

I would've wrote a comment, but I haven't the required reputation yet. Anyways...

I noticed your hostname 'ENJ01\SQLEXPRESS', have you tried using 'localhost' instead?

Also, try setting the port to 1433, with $db['dbname']['port'] = 1433;