PHP PDO_mssql SQLSTATE[01002] Adaptive Server connection failed (severity 9)

Question

I'm connecting to external MSSQL database for exports from PHP55/osx and I have wierd issue.

code:

new \PDO("dblib:host={$hostname};dbname={$dbname}", $user, $pass);

throws:

SQLSTATE[01002] Adaptive Server connection failed (severity 9)

but connection from CLI works correcty

tsql -S hostname -U user -P pass -L dbname:

locale is "cs_CZ.UTF-8"
locale charset is "UTF-8"
using default charset "UTF-8"
1> 

freetds.conf:

[hostname]
    host = ipaddress
    port = 1433
    tds version = 8.0

tsql -C:

                        Version: freetds v0.91
         freetds.conf directory: /usr/local/Cellar/freetds/0.91/etc
 MS db-lib source compatibility: no
    Sybase binary compatibility: no
                  Thread safety: yes
                  iconv library: yes
                    TDS version: 7.1
                          iODBC: no
                       unixodbc: no
          SSPI "trusted" logins: no
                       Kerberos: no

Any ideas? I have tried alomost anything, connect to hostname, ip, with and without port, to instance name, another user, TDS versions 7.0,7.1,7.2,8.0, reinstall php and freetds

Answer 1

Check these:

1. locate freetds.conf on your disk. It is possible it exists in several places and tsql uses one while PHP used another one. Best is to symlink them into one common file and test on that. Note that a common place for that file is ~/.freetds.conf beside /etc/ or /usr/local/etc/

2. there should be a [global] section on your freetds.conf file. Put there these lines :

   tds version = 8.0

   text size = 20971520

   client charset = UTF-8

Of course, I expect that you already checked which driver is loaded by PHP with phpinfo(): mssql, sqlsrv or dblib