php7-ext-mssql

This is just a port of the old mssql extension to newer PHP.

DON'T USE THIS FOR NEW APPS!

It's only meant to help porting apps from PHP <= 5.6 to PHP 8

I only tested it on Ubuntu 64-bit and PHP 8, YMMV

How to compile

Clone the repo, obviously
Install the php-dev and freetds-dev packages
cd into repository the directory
phpize
./configure
make
Add a new .ini file into /etc/php/???/conf.d (the actual path will vary) enabling the extension

Changes to old version

Persistent link functionality removed
mssql_close is now a NOP, connections are automatically closed when the last reference to the link resource is destroyed (either by going out of scope, being garbage collected or having the link variable overwritten with something else, just like objects)
Added to phpinfo() the TDS Protocol version being used by the default link
Added Warnings when VARCHAR values and/or column names are truncated (when using a TDS protocol version lower than 7.0)