PDO_DBLIB DSN
Here's the quick guide how to compile pdo_firebird and run tests for the ubuntu:
1) setup firebird superclassic:
$ sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-superclassic firebird2.5-dev
firebird2.5-examples
superclassic is the server itself (if in doubt, read this: http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/user_manuals/html/qsg25-classic-or-super.html), dev package contains headers to
compile pdo stuff, examples contains example db, i used it to run
tests in it.
Set up credentials for the server (see the link lower).
Get employee.fdb as written here
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/ubusetup.html to a some known and
writable path by your user (which tests will be run on).
2) make sure to compile php with following flags, you'll need interbase too (some
tests in pdo_firebird/tests need it)
./configure --enable-pdo --with-pdo-firebird --with-interbase
make
3) Run tests with environment variables that can be found in
ext/pdo_firebird/tests/common.phpt, I ran it like this:
$ PDO_FIREBIRD_TEST_DSN='firebird:dbname=/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/employee.fdb'
PDO_FIREBIRD_TEST_USER='SYSDBA' PDO_FIREBIRD_TEST_PASS='masterkey'
TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE=auto php -n ./run-tests.php ext/pdo_firebird
You're done!
Firebird/Interbase Functions (PDO_FIREBIRD)
Introduction
Warning
PDO_FIREBIRD is a driver that implements the PHP Data Objects (PDO)
interface to enable access from PHP to Firebird and Interbase databases.
This extension is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this extension including the names of its functions and any other documentation surrounding this extension may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This extension should be used at your own risk.
Installation
Use --with-pdo-firebird[=DIR] to install the PDO Firebird extension, where the optional [=DIR] is the Firebird base install directory.
$ ./configure --with-pdo-firebird
Predefined Constants
The constants below are defined by this driver, and will only be available when the extension has been either compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime. In addition, these driver-specific constants should only be used if you are using this driver. Using driver-specific attributes with another driver may result in unexpected behaviour. PDO::getAttribute() may be used to obtain the PDO_ATTR_DRIVER_NAME attribute to check the driver, if your code can run against multiple drivers.
Table of Contents
- PDO_FIREBIRD DSN — Connecting to Firebird and Interbase databases
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User Contributed Notes
Firebird/Interbase (PDO)
confik at gmail dot com
14-Sep-2011 03:01
mark-php at vectrex dot org dot uk
03-Jun-2007 05:15
If you have a database alias on the server "localhost" called "test.fdb", you can do:
$conn = new PDO("firebird:dbname=localhost:test.fdb",
'SYSDBA','letmein');
Note that as of the time of writing, the Firebird driver doesn't correctly throw an exception on connection error
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41522
Darren
08-Mar-2006 06:18
After much trial and error i found out you should use the following to connect to a firebird database:
<?php
$db = new PDO ("firebird:dbname=localhost:C:\\path\\to\\database\\MyDatabase.FDB", "username", "password");
?>
NOTE: in the 1st part of the connection string there can be NO spaces else you will get NULL.
The string provided on this site does not work and will give no error only NULL.
thomas at last-it dot de
04-Feb-2006 06:52
if youre dsn syntax is wrong, see ritsaert's comment, there maybe no errormessage!
ritsaert at continuit dot nl
18-Dec-2005 07:43
The connection string for a firebird PDO connection is different than described above. It is something like:
$DB = new PDO("firebird:dbname=T:\\Klimreg.GDB", "SYSDBA", "masterkey");
after dbname= the default connection string for Interbase and Firebird databases is used as presented to either gds32.dll or fbclient.dll.