14 DAY TRIAL // The official PHP Manual is a great place to find information on Microsoft’s SQL Server Driver for PHP. Jonathan Guerin, Program Manager PHP Driver for SQL Server Microsoft revealed that the manual has evolved to also offer developers information on the PHP Driver for SQL Server.
Devs can access details on the technology via the Native Driver (SQLSRV) manual, as well as through the PDO Driver (PDO_SQLSRV) manual.
“Following our recent inclusion to the PHP Extension Community Library, we are also excited to announce that we have also uploaded the corresponding documentation to the PHP Manual,” Guerin said.
“These are the missing pieces to our PECL extensions, and will provide PHP customers with a convenient place to find information on our extensions.”
As of June 2011, version 2.0 of the SQL Server Driver for PHP is the only release that developers have at their disposal.
Earlier this summer, the Redmond company announced that it has deprecated SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1. The software giant stressed that devs need to embrace the evolution of the technology and make the jump to SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0.
Those developers that are taking advantage of the driver might find the additional information published in the PHP Manual useful to them and their projects.
Earlier this week, Guerin noted that Microsoft is hard at work building the next iteration of the SQL Server Driver for PHP, and that all dev feedback is welcomed.
“We are currently hard at work on the development on our next version of the PHP Driver for SQL Server and would love to hear your thoughts on some features we are evaluating,” Guerin said.
“To this end, how much impact do you find from the following features, and which are most important to you?
• Always On Connectivity Support
• SQL Server Serverless Express support
• Buffered Queries
• Large Objects (LOB) streaming support in PDO_SQLSRV.”
SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 is available for download here.