Ok after a couple of hours getting re-acquainted with PHP 
running on x64 win 10 box you need to get the php-sql drivers with correctly compiled version 2012 local db & remote 2014 on 2012 r2 etc
http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=20098
sqlsrv32 for php 5.5
Added them into php.ini
removed any junk old vers
local & remote sql svcs rocking 
Also suggest getting pplz to do a php -v to find the complie probs