I am running mediawiki on MySQL on a Windows server. I am writing a TAG extension which needs to pull data from a MS SQL data source. In the extension's PHP code, I have the line:

$sqlconnect=odbc_connect($dsn,$username,$password);

When running this PHP code outside of the Wiki (e.g., in the DOS prompt by typing PHP code.php), the connection works and I actually pull out data from the database. But inside the extension code, $sqlconnect ends up being null. Is there a setting that I am missing that allows me to connect to an external database? Is one not allowed to connect to a database in a TAG extension code? (I am new to extensions).

I also tried pulling the same data via web services. I tried the line:

$client = new SoapClient("http://www.mydomain.com/MyService.asmx?wsdl");

Again, I successfully was able to pull data out of the web services when I ran the code outside of the wiki at the DOS prompt. But once in the Wiki extension code, my Wiki pages go blank!

Again, is there a setting that I am missing that will allow me to connect to databases and web services in TAG extensions?

Thanks

George A. Kiraz

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