Does Red Hat provide php-mssql and freetds packages?

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-08-07T06:10:48+00:00 -

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Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• php-mssql
• freetds

Issue

• Does Red Hat provide php-mssql and freetds packages?
• From where to get php-mssql and freetds packages?
• Fatal error: Call to undefined function mssql_connect()

Resolution

• Both the freetds and php-mssql packages are available in the unsupported EPEL repository.
  See: How to use Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)

• Note that unsupported EPEL packages compiled for versions of PHP provided by Red Hat Software Collections are available on softwarecollections.org as repos curated by Remi Collet (e.g., php56more)

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