PHP 7.0 ODBC-Driver for Windows

Question

I upgraded my PHP 5.6.30 (https://www.apachefriends.org/de/download.html) to PHP 7.0 (https://bitnami.com/stack/wamp/installer)

Everything worked fine so far and it

Answer 1

PHP7 has a few modules disabled by default that were previously enabled in PHP5.

It's an easy fix though since the extension should already exist in the \ext\ folder that came with PHP7. You just need to modify your php.ini file to include the line:

extension=php_odbc.dll

The line above is not already present and commented out; you actually need to add it!

PHP looks for the php.ini file in C:\Windows\ but it may also be located elsewhere on your machine. So check both C:\Windows\ and C:\php\ or where ever else you may have installed PHP.

After making the change you can check the results from the command line like this:

C:\php\php.exe -m

or (after restarting the web server / machine) from a .phtml file like this:

That will output a list of enabled modules which should now include odbc; if not, then you may have modified the wrong php.ini file (keep looking) or forgot to restart the web server / machine.

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Tips:

If you have a non-standard installation, you can use an absolute path like this:

extension=C:\php7x64\ext\php_odbc.dll