At 08:32 AM 22/05/2005 +0100, you wrote:

>Anybody got a way of accessing the path to the firebird directory from PHP?

This seems like a good reason for installing the FIREBIRD environment variable.

From the online manual:

getenv -- Gets the value of an environment variable

Description

string getenv ( string varname )

Returns the value of the environment variable varname, or FALSE on an error.

<?php
// Example use of getenv()
$ip = getenv('FIREBIRD');

// Or simply use a Superglobal ($_SERVER or $_ENV)
$ip = $_SERVER['FIREBIRD'];
?>

You can see a list of all the environmental variables by using phpinfo().
You can find out what many of them mean by taking a look at the CGI
specification, specifically the page on environmental variables.

See also putenv(), apache_getenv() and Superglobals.

User Contributed Notes:
getenv
renko at <remove>virtual-life dot net
08-Nov-2004 09:40
The function 'getenv' does not work if your Server API is ASAPI (IIS).

So, try to don't use getenv('REMOTE_ADDR'), but $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"].

>I am trying to tidy up the installer on Tikipro and have a single
>niggle. I need to run isql to create the blank database and currently I
>have the path hard coded for my system. Obviously I'd like to replace
>that with something that does not need changing for windows/unix and
>different setups.

De magic of concatenation. :-)

Helen