I need to connect to a remote SQL Server 2000 database from PHP (on a unix server). I know that I need to figure out how to use ODBC somehow, but all of the tutorials i've been able to find seem ...

Description. I encountered an issue where the MYSQLI_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT option and the mysql.connect_timeout setting do not work as expected when attempting to connect to a non-responsive server. The ...