PHP 8.x driver for SQLAnywhere

[justin_willey]

The question of a PHP v8 driver for SQL Anywhere is becoming very urgent.

The latest version for which a SQL Anywhere driver is available (here) is PHP v 7.4. Active support for this finished in November last year and Security Support finishes in November this year. The current support PHP version is 8.1 - details are here

We tried to compile a new version of the SQL Anywhere driver from source but without success. The main issue between v7.4 & v8.x relates to the thread safe behaviour and the removal of the Zend module from PHP. There also seem to be significant changes to the error handling. We tried to adapt the code to cope with these differences but were unable to make it work.

We have several customers who use PHP with SQL Anywhere who currently have no way forward.

[justin_willey]

apohl asked about this last year but there was no reply: https://sqlanywhere-forum.sap.com/questions/37078

[Oleksandr_Kushnirov]

I support. The lack of a driver stops the development of new solutions. SAP solve this problem

[former_SQLA_member1695096]

Can we have the drivers for PHP 8.1 and 8.2 please?

PHP 8.0 will no longer be supported from Nov 23. Time is passing, PHP versions are going out of support...

[RADical_Systems]

I've been chasing this for a while for one of our large publicly listed companies who can't use the source code as their auditors require the supplier of the software to provide it pre-compiled. I am told it is on the list but no time frames. Like you I want 8.1 and probably 8.2 now.