I was that guy, and it's possible that somewhere along the
lines I may have made a mistake in describing what vesions
I worked with but not so much how I did that.

I am runnning FB 1.5 and 1.5.1 with Mandrake 10.0, and I
achieved that using the exactl steps I posted for 1.03. I
am basically a lazy type, so I wouldn't bother to remeber
those steps. I noted them, did another installation to
confirm there were no errors, and by now I used the same
for now over 10 such installations. Worked every time.

I don't do all the steps now because after the first time I
compiled appropriate version of PHP I kept the *.so file.
Next time over it was just a question of placing it in an
appropriate directory - quite a time saver.
I also have an *.so file for FC 2 for which the steps will
be similar, except of some directory paths.

The steps I followed were based on a post to this list by
Julio Carlos Canaviri C. I gave appropriate credit to the
author of the original posting:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-php/message/547



--- Darren Thompson <h02@...> wrote:

> i find this funny the article link that you gave says the
> guy configured
> with firebird 1.5 but in the steps he uses the firebird
> 1.03 rpm LMAO
> firbird 1.5 falls over when you try to get it work on
> mandrake 10 and apache
> 2 1.03 works fine i will post my steps up on the list
> soon but firebird 1.5
> does not work on mandrake 10 with php dont know about the
> other linux
> distributions.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ArnoldGamboa.com
> [mailto:arnoldgamboadotcom@...]
> Sent: 12 November 2004 05:22
> To: firebird-php@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-php] Re: firebird-php-mandrake
> installation
>
>
>
>
> I think that's the main problem -- mine is Mandrake 9
> and the PHP
> installation was 4.3.9 (the latest). Guess this will
> not work for me.
> Any other ideas, friends?
>
> Arnold
>
> --- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, Dariusz
> Zelichowski
> <z_darius@y...> wrote:
> > This is hilarious. I posted those very instructions
> you
> > mention here on this mailing list a few months ago.
> >
> > The one your links points to, should work for
> Mandrake 10.0
> > (both final and community releases) and FB 1.03. I
> instaled
> > it a number of times and I had no problems. I also
> posted
> > here instructions for FB 1.5.1 and Mandrake 10.0.
> >
> > Both installations assume default Madrake 10.0
> > installation, including Apache 2 and the version of
> PHP
> > which comes with Mandrake 10.0. Make sure your
> > confidurations is as specified. Make sure that the
> version
> > of PHP you download and compile is php-4.3.5. The
> > instructions may not work with other versions. They
> may
> > also not work with versions of Mandrake other than
> 10.0.
> >
> > The steps are not just suggestions, so make sure you
> follow
> > all of them carefully. Otherwise it may not work, and
> FB
> > may even fly away with your girfriend. You've been
> warned
> > ;)
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > --- "ArnoldGamboa.com" <arnoldgamboadotcom@y...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi, I found an installation instruction from this
> list. I
> > > copied it to
> > > my site:
> > >
> > >
> >
>

http://arnoldgamboa.com/2004/11/apachemandrakephpfirebird/#more-308

> > >
> > > Unfortunately, after following the instruction
> carefully,
> > > I tried
> > > running the sample script and it failed.
> > >
> > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function:
> ibase_connect()
> > > in
> > > /home/www/projects/firebird.php on line 3
> > >
> > > I assume php is not reading firebird correctly. I
> run
> > > phpinfo() and I
> > > found this:
> > >
> > > Extensions listed here are (or will be soon)
> available as
> > > external
> > > modules. To install one or all of these, use
> "urpmi"
> > > php-EXTENSION_NAME
> > >
> > > [many here] interbase [...]
> > >
> > > additional .ini files parsed
> > > /etc/php/23_gd.ini, /etc/php/26_imap.ini,
> > > /etc/php/34_mysql.ini,
> > > /etc/php/interbase.ini, /etc/php/urpmi
> > >
> > > (see /etc/php/interbase.ini ?)
> > >
> > > Am I doing something wrong? Please help.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Arnold
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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