I just received an email from our host and they’ve upgraded our PHP to 5.3, unfortunately though, all the scripts have now broken. I traced it down to the function mssql_connect failing. Support told me this has now been deprecated under 5.3 – how can this be true?
How can you connect to a mssql database under PHP 5.3 now??
http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.mssql.php
“This extension is not available anymore on Windows with PHP 5.3 or later.”
Maybe you should look into converting your app to use PDO:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-sqlsrv.php