Question

I’ve setup a database connection in my config file, and if I print out the contents of Yii::app() I can find the database connection details, and they are correct.

When trying to use the Gii model generator tool, however, it falls down on me.

53    public function init() {
54 echo '<pre>';
55 print_r(Yii::app()->db);
56 echo '</pre>';
57 die();
58 Yii::app()->db = array(
59             'connectionString' => 'sqlsrv:Server=sti-hq2k8; Database=TrulinXLive',
60             'username' => 'jzumbrum',
61             'password' => 'my_super_secret_password',
62         'charset' => 'utf8',
63         'tablePrefix' => 'tbl',
64         );
65         if(Yii::app()->db===null)
66             throw new CHttpException(500,'An active "db" connection is required to run this generator.');

Exception Message:

CDbConnection failed to open the DB connection: SQLSTATE[IMSSP]: The given attribute is only supported on the PDOStatement object. 

Config settings:

'db'=>array(
        'connectionString' => 'sqlsrv:Server=servername; Database=database',
        'username' => 'jzumbrum',
        'password' => 'password',
        'charset' => 'GB2312',
        'tablePrefix' => 'tbl',
    )

Answer 1

From what I remember, I think I stopped having problems once I disabled emulating prepared statements:

'db'=>array(
    'connectionString' => 'sqlsrv:Server=servername; Database=database',
    'username' => 'jzumbrum',
    'password' => 'password',
    'charset' => 'GB2312',
    'tablePrefix' => 'tbl',
    'emulatePrepare' =>false
)

Other possible problems/ fixes available here: http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/17998-use-sqlsrv-with-php-53x-and-yii/