Here is my successful odbc_connect with mysql on Ubuntu. It took me a while to figure this out.
Installed following packages using apt-get.
apache2
apache2-mpm-prefork
apache2-utils
apache2.2-common
libapache2-mod-php5
libdbd-mysql-perl
libmyodbc
libmysqlclient15off
mysql-client-5.0
mysql-common
mysql-server-5.0
mysql-server-core-5.0
odbcinst1debian1
php5
php5-cli
php5-common
php5-odbc
unixodbc
/etc/odbc.ini
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myodbc3 = MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver
[myodbc3]
Driver = /usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc.so
Description = MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver
Server = localhost
Port = 3306
User = shyam
Password = mypass
Database = mysql
Option = 3
Socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
/etc/odbcinst.ini
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[MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver]
Description = MySQL driver
Driver = /usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc.so
Setup = /usr/lib/odbc/libodbcmyS.so
CPTimeout =
CPReuse =
UsageCount = 1
my php script
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<html>
<body>
<?
$conn = odbc_connect("DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};Server=localhost;Database=mysql", "shyam", "mypass");
$sql = "SELECT user from user";
$rs = odbc_exec($conn,$sql);
echo "<table><tr>";
echo "<th>User Name</th></tr>";
while (odbc_fetch_row($rs))
{
$user = odbc_result($rs,"user");
echo "<tr><td>$user</td></tr>";
}
odbc_close($conn);
echo "</table>";
?>
</body>
</html>
