I'm coming to the conclusion that the developers of php don't care about
firebird, and the developers of firebird don't care about php.

I have working installations on php 5.2.17 for both windows and linux, but
as the php website now states that 5.2 is no longer supported i thought I
would try to upgrade.
I also want to look at Doctrine2 and Zend Framework2, both these require
php5.3.

I am using VC9 builds. Apache came from apache lounge. PHP from php.net.

You've provided the link
http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.3.8-Win32-VC9-x86.msi

But that msi does not have option for firebird pdo. Firebird dlls are not
included.
Zip version has the dll files but they won't load. I read somewhere that
php has to be compiled to include support for interbase (but that may be
wrong).

to answer your question about php_interbase.dll, no that does not load
either.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> Steve Rayner wrote:
> > Thanks for response.
> >
> > I tried looking at that link but is uses 64bit versions, and I am running
> > 32bit.
> I must add the bits for that ;)
>
> http://www.anindya.com/apache-http-server-2-2-21-x86-and-x64-windows-installers/
>
>
> > I tried using the zip version of php, as per that tutorial, and after a
> lot
> > of messing about with php.ini managed to load some pdo dlls, but the
> > pdo_firebird.dll refuses to load.
> The builds need to be VC9 for PHP5.3,
> http://download.anindya.com/apache/apache_2.2.21-x86-no-ssl.msi should
> work with
> http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.3.8-Win32-VC9-x86.msi
>
>
> > What version of php are you using on windows?
> The 32 bit setups are on XP and W2k ...
> 5.2.8 at present, Anindya only ships the 64bit PHP builds when they are
> released
> and I prefer to keep to the same version everywhere.
>
> Does php_interbase.dll load? You need the client from that in the right
> place
> for either of the firebird drivers to load.
>
>
> >> srayner02 wrote:
> >>> You guys seems to be activily developing interbase/firebird for php.
> >>> I'm trying to upgrade to php5.3 on windows and have noticed that the
> >> pdo_firebird driver is no longer an option in the msi. I have tried
> >> installing manually, but apache won't start with the pdo_firebird driver
> >> activated.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone here know if the pdo_firebird driver works with php5.3?
> >> I'd probably say working with Firebird on PHP rather than developing the
> >> drivers.
> >> As others have said and will say, we tend to prefer the generic driver
> as
> >> PDO
> >> needs MORE work to fill in the missing gaps.
> >> That said, pdo_firebird is loading fine on my windows machines ...
> >> Try
> >>
> >>
> http://enquirysolve.co.uk/wiki/index.php?page=Windows+Manual+-+FWAP+Installation
> >> and see if it helps ... you need to be using a 'non-standard' Apache
> >> download to
> >> work with PHP5.3 is will not run with the official builds :(
>
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