PHP Extension Firebird
Firebird PHP extension provides a client interface to the Firebird Database Server.
Latest version of the interbase version code is found in the PHP extensions area of the PHP SVN repository although working copies can be found in the php5-src package provided with many distributions. It is planned that a DVCS copy of a Firebird port of the extension will be up and running soon.
Firebird can be downloaded from http://www.firebirdsql.org/.
Step 1. Compile Package
Copy the current source code to {home}/Install/firebird and run the compile scripts to process it
Step 2. Configure the extension
Add extension=interbase.so to your initialization file, and move the interbase block of additional settings from the base php.ini file. On the SUSE setup, the php.ini file can be found in /etc/php5/apache2/ , and the extension ini files are located in /etc/php5/conf.d/ . Moving the extension configurations to separate ini files makes sense, and I plan to strip MySQL and other unnecessary sections from the base php.ini file.
| Name | Default | Changeable | Changelog |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibase.allow_persistent | "1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | |
| ibase.max_persistent | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | |
| ibase.max_links | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | |
| ibase.default_db | NULL | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | Available since PHP 5.0.0. |
| ibase.default_user | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | |
| ibase.default_password | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | |
| ibase.default_charset | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 5.0.0. |
| ibase.timestampformat | "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" | PHP_INI_ALL | |
| ibase.dateformat | "%Y-%m-%d" | PHP_INI_ALL | |
| ibase.timeformat | "%H:%M:%S" | PHP_INI_ALL |