Instead of specifying tds version and client charset in freetds.conf, you may pass it as a parameter.
<?php $dsn = 'dblib:version=7.0;charset=UTF-8;host=domain.example.com;dbname=example;'; ?>(PECL PDO_DBLIB >= 0.9.0)
PDO_DBLIB DSN — Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases
The PDO_DBLIB Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements:
The DSN prefix is sybase: if PDO_DBLIB was
linked against the Sybase ct-lib libraries,
mssql: if PDO_DBLIB was linked against the
Microsoft SQL Server libraries, or dblib: if
PDO_DBLIB was linked against the FreeTDS libraries.
hostThe hostname on which the database server resides. Defaults to 127.0.0.1.
dbnameThe name of the database.
charsetThe client character set.
appnameThe application name (used in sysprocesses). Defaults to "PHP Generic DB-lib" or "PHP freetds".
secureCurrently unused.
Example #1 PDO_DBLIB DSN examples
The following examples show a PDO_DBLIB DSN for connecting to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases:
mssql:host=localhost;dbname=testdb sybase:host=localhost;dbname=testdb dblib:host=localhost;dbname=testdb
Instead of specifying tds version and client charset in freetds.conf, you may pass it as a parameter.
<?php $dsn = 'dblib:version=7.0;charset=UTF-8;host=domain.example.com;dbname=example;'; ?>If you're using FreeTDS driver and you want to use "charset" parameter then you may have to edit freetds.conf (e.g. /etc/freetds/freetds.conf) and force connection using at least version 7.0 of the protocol.
tds version = 7.0
Charset parameter accepts all encodings supported by iconv (execute iconv --list to show all encodings).when you connect to non standart 1433 port
for win32 use DSN like 'mssql:host=hostname,port;dbname=database'
for FreeTDS and DB-Lib use DSN like 'mssql:host=hostname:port;dbname=database'