PHP&InterBase

[Anon]

Do I need some special version of PHP or some kind of extension in order to use InterBase....?
If yes - Could you please tell where I can get and how to install them?

[Anon]

Interesting question. I haven't tried PHP with InterBase but plan to.

So I looked at php.net. On their configuration page:

http://php.net/manual/configuration.php

There is all sorts of information about configuring PHP to work with OTHER databases, but not InterBase. Does this mean there is no special configuration needed?

Another page on the PHP site that should be useful to you is:

http://php.net/manual/ref.ibase.php

[Anon]

What OS are you running, what web server, etc... It's far easier to help you out knowing these things.

I'll assume Unix/Apache...

You probably need to recompile php using the --with-interbase switch. For a list of all the switches for the configure script, type ./configure --help To look for a particular switch, try ./configure --help|grep string to search for a string. So, ./configure --help|grep interbase should yield the configure switch needed for interbase. ./configure --help|grep mysql for mysql etc...

[Anon]

Thank you. I'll try.

[Anon]

Thanks Scott, your answer will also help me when configuring PHP on my Linux box in the next few weeks.