I want to use PHP and SQL Server and I have a web server which contains both SQL Server 2005 and PHP. To use PHP with SQL Server, I need to install SQL Server Driver for PHP on my server. This is no problem. Two questions: 1. I have to have SQL Server Native Client on the server. Is this part of SQL Server 2005 (and I have it) or something I have to add. 2. Do I need to have Windows Azure Platform to use the SQL Server Driver for PHP? Thanks for your help. I know this is probably pretty basic, but I'm just a humble application developer.