Thanks marius adrian popa,

>
> the interbase extension is not loaded
> check with phpinfo is loaded
>
> sudo apt-get install php5-ibase
>

Rather i used adept and loaded necessary extensions
modified PHP.ini and it worked like a charm.

Now its listing all records as array i have to convert
it to xml thats it. I will do it no problem.

I am getting a feeling that PHP is piece of cake
compared to java server side technologies. Its also
easy to understand and code compared to java.

Thanks once again for getting me started.

Best regards

Raja