Regardless of which procedure you use, the first step will be to put the driver file in a directory where the PHP runtime can find it. So, put the driver file in your PHP extension directory. See System Requirements for a list of the driver files that are installed with the SQL Server Driver for PHP.

If necessary, specify the directory location of the driver file in the PHP configuration file (php.ini), using the extension_dir option. For example, if you will put the driver file in your c:\php\ext directory, use this option:

extension_dir = "c:\PHP\ext"

To load the SQL Server Driver for PHP when PHP is started, first move the driver file into your extension directory. Then, follow these steps:

1. Modify php.ini by adding the following line to the extension section, or modifying the line that is already there (this example uses the version 1.0 thread safe driver):
   
   extension=php_sqlsrv_ts.dll

2. Restart the Web server.
   

Note:
To determine whether the extension has been successfully loaded, run a script that calls phpinfo ( ).

For more information about php.ini directives, see Description of core php.ini directives.

To load the SQL Server Driver for PHP at script runtime, first move the driver file into your extension directory. Then include the following line at the start of the PHP script that will use the extension:

dl('php_sqlsrv_ts.dll');

For more information about PHP functions related to dynamically loading extensions, see dl and extension_loaded .

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