Aage Johansen wrote:

> Someone wants to connect to a Firebird database (1.5) using PHP - what
> advice can I give so that he can connect succesfully?

You need to load the appropriate php extension and to have Firebird
clinet installed. How to do it, depends much on operating system. I
suggest you ask this question at firebird-php group where it is really a
FAQ.

> Is it sufficient to just install the client software (and PHP does "the rest")?

No.

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