I am attempting to connect to a Firebird 1.5 (Interbase) database from a newly established web server. The web server installed via NuSphere Tech Platfor 3.0.1 for Linux is running under Fedora Core 2 Linux, with all of the latest operating system patches applied.

Apache and php appear to be properly configured, but I continue to get the following error when attempting to access a dynamic web page that pulls its content from a remote Firebird database via ibase_pconnect():

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ibase_pconnect() in /usr/local/nusphere/apache/htdocs/db_interbase.php on line 49

The following lines are included in my php.ini:

extension=php_interbase.so
extension=php_pgsql.so


; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = On

; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' instead of \').
magic_quotes_sybase = On


interbase.so is located in /usr/local/nusphere/apache/php


Any help in resolving this issue is most deeply appreciated.


Many Thanks!

php_xxxx are mostly Win32 extensions. Under Linux they have no php_ prefix in their names. As with interbase extension in particular, you have to compile it.

Hopefully, next TechPlat for linux will come with support for interbase and postgres, so you won't need to compile anything.

Thanks for your response.

Kindly provide step by step instructions for doing the compilation.

Many thanks!

please try interbase.so that is included with TechPlatform.
Run phpinfo() function, find full path to php.ini listed in the topmost header,
open php.ini and add the following line

immediately after the last extension= line.

Tried it. It did not work.

I've now installed Apache and php from source, compiling php --with-interbase, and everything is A-OK.

Thanks!