Hi Paul,

just another guess,

Il 16/04/2015 22:16, Paul Vinkenoog paul@... [firebird-php] ha
scritto:

> I'm starting to wonder if it's a process or user thing: could it be possible that processes owned by the apache user can't initiate TCP/IP connections, not even to localhost? But with an empty hostname, there's no TCP/IP connection and even *that* doesn't work - at least not from the PHP script.

Are you trying from PHP in Apache or other Web server?
Have you test with interactive mode, ie:

php -a

from command line?

Mimmo