Deploying PHP clients

To deploy the SQL Anywhere PHP extension, you must install the following components on the target platform:

The PHP 5 binaries for your platform, which are available for download at http://www.php.net. For Windows platforms, the thread-safe version of PHP must be used with the SQL Anywhere PHP extension.
A web server such as Apache HTTP Server if you want to run PHP scripts within a web server.

SQL Anywhere can be run on the same computer as the web server, or on a different computer.
SQL Anywhere provides prebuilt PHP extensions for PHP versions 5.1.1 to 5.2.11 and 5.3.0 to 5.3.2. At the time of writing, PHP version 5.2.11 and 5.3.2 were the most recent stable releases.
Supporting SQL Anywhere shared objects or libraries.

The following table summarizes the files required for PHP clients.

Description	Windows	Linux / Unix	Mac OS X
PHP installation (third-party)	php.exe	php	php
PHP 5.1.x calls	php-5.1.[1-6]_sqlanywhere_extenv12.dll	php-5.1.[1-6]_sqlanywhere_extenv12_r.so or build from source code	Build from source code
PHP 5.2.x calls	php-5.2.[0-11]_sqlanywhere_extenv12.dll	php-5.2.[0-11]_sqlanywhere_extenv12_r.so or build from source code	Build from source code
PHP 5.3.x calls	php-5.3.[0-2]_sqlanywhere_extenv12.dll	php-5.3.[0-2]_sqlanywhere_extenv12_r.so or build from source code	Build from source code
SQL Anywhere C API runtime	dbcapi.dll	libdbcapi_r.so	libdbcapi_r.dylib
DBLIB (threaded)	dblib12.dll	libdblib12_r.so	libdblib12_r.dylib
Thread support library	N/A	libdbtasks12_r.so	libdbtasks12_r.dylib
optional encryption support	dbecc12.dll	libdbecc12_r.so	libdbecc12_r.dylib
optional encryption support	dbfips12.dll	libdbfips12_r.so	libdbfips12_r.dylib
optional encryption support	dbrsa12.dll	libdbrsa12_r.so	libdbrsa12_r.dylib
Language resource library	dblg[LL]12.dll	dblg[LL]12.res	dblg[LL]12.res
Connect window	dbcon12.dll	N/A	N/A

For the latest SQL Anywhere PHP drivers, see http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1019698.
A language resource library file should also be included. The table above show files with the designation [LL]. There are several message files each supporting a different language. If you want to install support for different languages, you have to include the resource files for these languages. Replace [LL] with the language code (for example, en, de, jp, etc.).
If the client application uses encryption then the appropriate encryption support should also be included.
If the client application uses an ODBC data source to hold the connection parameters, your end user must have a working ODBC installation. Instructions for deploying ODBC are included in the Microsoft ODBC SDK.

For more information about deploying ODBC information, see Deploying ODBC clients.
The ODBC Configuration support module for Windows (dbcon12.dll) is needed if your end users will be creating their own data sources.

For additional information about installing PHP, see [external link] http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1057714.

The following sections provide assistance with installing the SQL Anywhere PHP extension.

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