Posted by Gabriel Guzman on 05/05/05 23:31

James wrote:
> I've attempted to access a firebird database living on an osx/apache/php
> machine.

<snip>

> How do I enable those functions? I've looked at the php documentation
> (http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/ref.ibase.php )
>
> "To enable InterBase support configure PHP --with-interbase[=DIR], where
> DIR is the InterBase base install directory, which defaults to
> /usr/interbase."
> I've tried to add:
> --with-interbase=/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Resources
> to my php.ini and it didn't work.

James... this is talking about configuring the php compile, not a
setting in php.ini

so, for example if you just downloaded php-4.3.11.tar.bz2 from the
php.net website, and un zip/tarred it, you would run the configure script:

../configure --with-interbase[=DIR] (plus any other compile time options
you need)

then compile and install php (make, make install)

> Am I pointing to the wrong directory? What other configuration/setup do
> I have to do to enable php's interbase functions?

this is a "compile time" option, and not a php.ini one.
hth,
gabe.

p.s. you can see what current compile time options are by looking at the
output of phpinfo()

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