Question

I have a PHP website on a Windows machine and would like to insert data DIRECTLY to SQL database which is located on IIS server on a different machine?

Which approach shall I follow?

**My initial thought was to divert to a PHP page hosted by IIS that executes a query and then redirect back to my website. However, I prefer something easier and less complicated approach.

IIS is on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Your help is appreciated very much. Thanks!

Answer 1

If you’re using PHP, you can open a connection to a database on another machine using PDO:

$remotedb = new PDO("*dbtype*:dbname=*dbname*;host=*addressOfOtherMachine*", $user, $password);

http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.pdo.php