A final update (for now?)... Throughout this process, I was working with Netsuite support. They pointed out (and I did see this early on too), that the driver is not technically supported for Debian-based OS. The driver is developed by a 3rd party and Debian based Linux OSs are not supported. I would suppose that maybe…

An update... So I've determined that I can, in fact, get everything "working," but ONLY if I run the 'source' command found in the README of the driver download. [CODE]source oaodbc.sh[/CODE] This command, when executed inside of a shell/console will allow me to run the isql "test" as well as enter interactive php (php -a)…

Thanks you for your quick reply! I see your links here -- they seem to be relevant only for Windows OS XP or greater. (Which I do appreciate because I will be likely making a C#.NET based application as well--so maybe this will help when I get to that point). ...these also need to be installed first in the Web Server where…