Attempting to configure php on Windows to connect to MSSQL DB

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I have an old PHP project that was originally written for PHP 5.2. Most of the pages come up with few if any differences in 5.7 or 7.1, but I seem to be having trouble getting the project to connect to a backend MS SQL DB. Back in PHP 5.2 it was using the MSSQL extension. From what I have read that was removed in PHP 5.3 according to several comments on the PHP manual(http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.removed-extensions.php). There is a MS SQL for PHP driver available, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. It doesn't seem to show up in phpinfo as the old extension did and not surprisingly the functions don't seem to work properly.

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