I think i'm all working again.

I was speaking to a guy over at php.net, and he pointed out the same thing
as you.

My client library was called gds32.dll (the old interbase name).
Copied and renamed to fbclient.dll and presto, php modules now load.

Haven't tested my apps yet though.

Thanks for your help, much apreciated.

Steve

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> 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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