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.