PHP client deployment

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 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 many PHP versions ranging from 5.1.1 to 5.4.8.
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-]_sqlanywhere.dll*	php-5.1.[1-]_sqlanywhere_r.so* or build from source code	Build from source code
PHP 5.2.x calls	php-5.2.[0-]_sqlanywhere.dll* php-5.2.1_sqlanywhere_nts.dll	php-5.2.[0-]_sqlanywhere_r.so* or build from source code	Build from source code
PHP 5.3.x calls	php-5.3.[0-]_sqlanywhere.dll* php-5.3.[0-]_sqlanywhere_nts.dll*	php-5.3.[0-]_sqlanywhere_r.so* or build from source code	Build from source code
PHP 5.4.x calls	php-5.4.[0-]_sqlanywhere.dll* php-5.4.[0-]_sqlanywhere_nts.dll*	php-5.4.[0-]_sqlanywhere_r.so* or build from source code	Build from source code
Language resource library	dblg[LL]16.dll	dblg[LL]16.res	dblg[LL]16.res
Connect window	dbcon16.dll	N/A	N/A
SQL Anywhere C API runtime	dbcapi.dll	libdbcapi_r.so	libdbcapi_r.dylib
DBLIB (threaded)	dblib16.dll	libdblib16_r.so	libdblib16_r.dylib
Thread support library	N/A	libdbtasks16_r.so	libdbtasks16_r.dylib
ICU library	dbicu16.dll	libdbicu16_r.so²	libdbicu16_r.dylib²
ICU Data library	dbicudt16.dll	libdbicudt16.so²	libdbicudt16.dylib²
optional encryption support	dbfips16.dll	libdbfips16_r.so	libdbfips16_r.dylib
optional encryption support	dbrsa16.dll	libdbrsa16_r.so	libdbrsa16_r.dylib

For the latest SQL Anywhere PHP drivers, see http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1019698.
The php-5.x.y_sqlanywhere_nts.dll files are non-thread-safe version of the PHP extensions.
A language resource library file should also be included. The table above shows files with the designation [LL]. There are several message files each supporting a different language. 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, and so on).
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 Windows, the ODBC Configuration for SQL Anywhere and Connect to SQL Anywhere window support code (dbcon16.dll) is needed if your end users will create their own data sources, if they need to enter user IDs and passwords when connecting to the database, or if they need to display the Connect window for any other purpose.
For information about installing PHP on Windows and Linux/Solaris, see the topics that follow.
For a white paper on PHP, see http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1057714.