In OS X 10.8 and earlier, PHP was built with ODBC support, making it easy to connect to a Caché database:
$ php -r 'phpinfo();' |grep 'ODBC Support'
ODBC Support => enabled
However, this support was removed in OS X 10.9:
$ php -r 'phpinfo();' |grep 'ODBC Support'
Some people use Homebrew, MacPorts, or Fink to get their tools back. If you're comfortable coloring a little outside the lines (i.e., using sudo and the command line), you can build the odbc.so or pdo_odbc.so extension (depending on which API you prefer), and use it with Apple's version of Apache and PHP. You'll need the following:


Does anybody know where the problem might come from ?