What is firebird

Firebird is an open source relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in many production systems within a large number of commercial companies since 1981.

Steps to compile compile firebird module with php

1)      Download the firebird module  to server

Cd /usr/src

Wget wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/Firebird-2.0.3.12981-1.tar.bz2

2)      Manually build and install the firebird module

tar -jxf Firebird-2.0.3.12981-1.tar.bz2

cd Firebird-2.0.3.12981-1

mv Firebird-2.0.3.12981-1 firebird

cd firebird

./autogen.sh; make;make install

3)      rebuild PHP along with the firebird

‘–with-interbase=/usr/src/firebird’ option.

 

 4) check php module using php –m command

Regards

Stacy

System Administrator.