$myServer = ".SQLEXPRESS";
    $myUser = "sa";
    $myPass = "blablabla";
    $myDB = "test";

    //connection to the database
    $dbhandle = mssql_connect($myServer, $myUser, $myPass)
      or die("Couldn't connect to SQL Server on $myServer");

    //select a database to work with
    $selected = mssql_select_db($myDB, $dbhandle)
      or die("Couldn't open database $myDB");

    //declare the SQL statement that will query the database
    $query = "SELECT * FROM dbo.table WHERE query='2'";
    //$query .= "FROM dbo.table  ";
    //$query .= "WHERE query='2'";

    //execute the SQL query and return records
    $result = mssql_query($query);

    $numRows = mssql_num_rows($result);
    echo "<h1>" . $numRows . " Row" . ($numRows == 1 ? "" : "s") . " Returned </h1>";

    //display the results
    while($row = mssql_fetch_array($result))
    {
      echo "<li>" . $row["query"]. "</li>";
    }
    //close the connection
    mssql_close($dbhandle);

[global]
;tds version = 4.2
tds version = 8.0
client charset = UTF-8

mssql.charset = "UTF-8"

sudo apt-get install php-sybase

...
[global]
    # TDS protocol version
;   tds version = 4.2
tds version = 8.0
client charset = UTF-8
...