Steve Rayner wrote:

> 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.

Only partly true ... Linux has always worked prefectly out of the box.

The windows php support team are not at all helpful! But I have NO problems with
my own windows servers. However many of my customer sites have now eased back on
their windows only rules and we run linux servers for the FLAP/FWAP stack so
I've not had to worry quite so much about windows as a server. My CURRENT
testbed is running on Windows 7, and this machine is dual boot to linux. 64 bit
setups on both, and the W7 setup is *4* times slower than the linux setup
running from the same test suit, actually the same website on a shared disk. The
XP and W2k servers are running fine and have a lot better performance than W7.

> 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).

I have 32 build of 5.3.8 running here with both php_interbase and pdo_firebird
but it may well be that I got the pdo driver from the zip. The 'msi' has
php_interbase?

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

The how was your copy of Firebird installed? Without an accessible firebird
client neither driver will load. Can you access the server from Flamebobin?

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