Codeignter querying mssql through odbc

[eluser]kikz4life[/eluser]
sorry for the late reply. we had political issue here in phil. xD

my Loader.php where one of my errors occurred

Code:

function dbutil()
    {
        if ( ! class_exists('CI_DB'))
        {
            $this->database();
        }

        $CI =& get_instance();

        // for backwards compatibility, load dbforge so we can extend dbutils off it
        // this use is deprecated and strongly discouraged
        $CI->load->dbforge();

        require_once(BASEPATH.'database/DB_utility'.EXT);
        require_once(BASEPATH.'database/drivers/'.$CI->db->dbdriver.'/'.$CI->db->dbdriver.'_utility'.EXT);
        $class = 'CI_DB_'.$CI->db->dbdriver.'_utility';

        $CI->dbutil =& new $class(); // --> line 414 where it says that [b]Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated[/b]

        $CI->load->_ci_assign_to_models();
    }

The problem is if I upgrade my server xampp 1.7.1 to latest version (ie. xampp 1.7.2/ 1.7.3) my CI application won't run :down:, bcoz of deprecated synthax in PHP 5.3. Have you tried xampp 1.7.1 connecting to MS SQL 2008?.