On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:58:51PM +0300, Emil Totev wrote:

> Hi
>
> I remember once the php_interbase extension used to look for a
> GDS32.DLL client library. I was surprised now to discover that the
> latest php 5.3.15 is trying to load FBCLIENT.DLL. I went through the
> PHP chngelog but couldn't find any reference to this change. Can
> anybody tell when was that done and why? What if I wanted to use
> php_interbase with "real" Interbase?
>
> Could php_interbase at least be taught how to find the client library
> in the Firebird installation BIN directory?
>
> The reason why I am complaining is that I already have a copy of
> fbclient in the installation directory, another one renamed as
> GDS32.DLL in the windows\system32 directory (for compatibility
> reasons), and now PHP wants me to put yet another copy in its
> extensions directory or somewhere on the system path. And then I have
> to remember to upgrade them all... (I am using 2.5 SC embedded
> actually).
>
> And this brings me to a more general question - is there a "correct"
> way to locate the firebird client library? There was a registry
> setting once, I remember...

We will support only Firebird client library so the FBCLIENT.DLL is the
one we should looking for when the php is loading the firebird
driver,maybe the embedded one if is not found .
It should in theory load it's driver from the registry but the sane way
is to search it in the system env seted path also in the php exe dir
There are other complications with 64/32 bit clients and installations

So for the moment i will concentrate on the current list of bugs and then i will think
about it