What is firebird

Firebird is an open source relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in many production systems within a large number of commercial companies since 1981.

Steps to compile compile firebird module with php

• Download the firebird module

 #cd /usr/src
 #wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/
       Firebird-2.0.3.12981-1.tar.bz2

• Manually build and install the firebird module

#tar -jxf Firebird-2.0.3.12981-1.tar.bz2
#cd Firebird-2.0.3.12981-1
#mv Firebird-2.0.3.12981-1 firebird
#cd firebird
#./autogen.sh; make;make install

• Rebuild PHP along with the firebird

‘–with-interbase=/usr/src/firebird’ option.

When installing is finished, open the php.ini configuration file (located in /usr/local/lib/), and check if these lines exist (uncomment/modify them if necessary):

magic_quotes_sybase = On ; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' instead of ')
extension=php_interbase.so

magic_quotes_sybase = On;Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' instead of ')
extension=php_interbase.so

4) check php module using php -m command

Regards

Stacy

System Administrator.