Subject Re: [firebird-php] PHP Firebird Vista install problems
Author Lester Caine
masotti wrote:
>
> dogrocket2003 ha scritto:
>> Help!
>> I had DELPHI4PHP with latest apache and latest Interbase 8.1
>> installed. Everything works ok. But when I tried to install firebird
>> 2.1 I cant get connects to work in php. Firerobin connects ok,
>> IBexpert connects ok. Database workshop does not.
> Ok, explained this problem in my session at FBcon08.
> Delphi4PHP has 4 (yes FOUR !) copies in his installation directories of
> the Interbase 8 GDS32.DLL library.
> This library is the Interbase 8 version, and it is loaded from there by
> D4PHP instead of the system wide in C:\WINDOWS\SYTEM32 or the like.
> You must search in C:\Programs files\Codegear\Delphi for PHP\2.0 and
> subdirs for GDS32.DLL and rename all of them or delete.
> You cannot develop an application using Interbase 8 and Firebird 2
> because client libraries (for sure IB library) are not code compatible.
> I think this can be explained better, but this is.

That probably hits the nail on the head.
Best explanation of why we do need to split off a php_firebird build of the
driver.

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