Connect to MSDE using PHP

["John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've downlownded and installed the Desktop Edition of MSSQL and am 
trying to connect to it with PHP. Has anyone ever accomplished this?

I've uncommented the line in php.ini to load the MSSQL functions and 
they show up on a phpinfo() page, so that part is good.

When I installed MSDE I tried it without a named instance first and just 
set an SA password.

Neither of these worked:
mssql_connect('localhost','sa','password')
mssql_connect('coconut','sa','password')

where "coconut" is the name of my computer.

Then I tried installing MSDE again with a named instance and tried

mssql_connect('namedinstance\localhost','sa','password')
mssql_connect('namedinstance\coconut','sa','password')

and those wouldn't work either. The only response I get is "failed to 
connect to server ..."

I'm off to try ODBC. Anyone have any suggestions?

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