php / ubuntu new installation adodb problems

[mforan]

<?php
$myServer = "<remote ip>";
$myUser = "<username>";
$myPass = "<password>";
$myDB = "FAP2"; 
//create an instance of the ADO connection object
$conn = new COM ("ADODB.Connection")
  or die("Cannot start ADO");

?>

 

No error messages reported, but page "dies" at this point.

The ubuntu machine can see the sql machine, but yet this is happening.

[premiso]

Did you do a:

 

sudo apt-get install php5-adodb

 

And after you do that, if the program is running on a webserver, restart the server. It should work.

[mforan]

that hasn't worked, because i have just done an echo after the connection and the echo is not showing on my test page.

[premiso]

that hasn't worked, because i have just done an echo after the connection and the echo is not showing on my test page.

 

So you are saying that you actively installed the adodb php install set from ubuntu and restarted your webserver, then tried the connection? Without that module being setup / installed it will not work. Just checking as you did not really mention if you did do the install or not.

[mforan]

yes we have installed it.

[trq]

Your not even using the ADODB extension, your using COM. COM is a windows technology and does not exist on or for GNU/Linux.

[mforan]

we have also tryed odbc_connect also and that has not worked.

[trq]

Have you checked phpinfo to ensure the extension is installed? Do you have error reporting on? Have you checked your error logs? What kind of database are you trying to connect to?