[PHP] php/osx and firebird
I have a windows machine with Firebird and the default database. I've configured another machine with Apache and PHP. I want to write PHP scripts to remotely access the Firebird database. I followed the instructions at: http://us3.php.net/ibase I changed the php.ini to enable the php_interbase.dll and the php_gd2.dll by commenting out the two lines under Windows Extensions I also copied gds32.dll from the php directory to the C:\windows\system32 directory. I restarted Apache. This is in my PHP script: $host = 10.1.4.58:c:\fbwin50\fbdata\fbdata.fdb; $username = SYSDBA; $password = masterkey; $dbh = ibase_pconnect ($host, $username, $password); $stmt = SELECT * FROM EVENTTYP; $sth = ibase_query ($dbh, $stmt); I get the following error: Warning: ibase_pconnect() [function.ibase-pconnect]: Unable to complete network request to host 10.1.4.58. Failed to locate host machine. Undefined service gds_db/tcp. in d:\htdocs\Website\PHP\dtest.php on line 17 Warning: ibase_query() [function.ibase-query]: invalid database handle (no active connection) in d:\htdocs\Website\PHP\dtest.php on line 20 I was able to use isql to remotely connect using the parameters above. What am I not doing on the PHP end to get this to work? -- -James
Re: [PHP] php/osx and firebird
Undefined service gds_db/tcp. Sounds to me like it's not finding the port in services. I don't know what default port Firebird is listening on, but you should have an entry like gds_db/tcp 1234/tcp in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services. You'll have to find out exactly which port it's listening on. I think you may need this on both the client and the server. kgt James wrote: I have a windows machine with Firebird and the default database. I've configured another machine with Apache and PHP. I want to write PHP scripts to remotely access the Firebird database. I followed the instructions at: http://us3.php.net/ibase I changed the php.ini to enable the php_interbase.dll and the php_gd2.dll by commenting out the two lines under Windows Extensions I also copied gds32.dll from the php directory to the C:\windows\system32 directory. I restarted Apache. This is in my PHP script: $host = 10.1.4.58:c:\fbwin50\fbdata\fbdata.fdb; $username = SYSDBA; $password = masterkey; $dbh = ibase_pconnect ($host, $username, $password); $stmt = SELECT * FROM EVENTTYP; $sth = ibase_query ($dbh, $stmt); I get the following error: Warning: ibase_pconnect() [function.ibase-pconnect]: Unable to complete network request to host 10.1.4.58. Failed to locate host machine. Undefined service gds_db/tcp. in d:\htdocs\Website\PHP\dtest.php on line 17 Warning: ibase_query() [function.ibase-query]: invalid database handle (no active connection) in d:\htdocs\Website\PHP\dtest.php on line 20 I was able to use isql to remotely connect using the parameters above. What am I not doing on the PHP end to get this to work? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php/osx and firebird
Here's the answer! http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,25290,00.html I updated the SERVICE file on my Apache/PHP machine and all is well. At 12:04 PM -0400 6/15/05, James wrote: I have a windows machine with Firebird and the default database. I've configured another machine with Apache and PHP. I want to write PHP scripts to remotely access the Firebird database. I followed the instructions at: http://us3.php.net/ibase I changed the php.ini to enable the php_interbase.dll and the php_gd2.dll by commenting out the two lines under Windows Extensions I also copied gds32.dll from the php directory to the C:\windows\system32 directory. I restarted Apache. This is in my PHP script: $host = 10.1.4.58:c:\fbwin50\fbdata\fbdata.fdb; $username = SYSDBA; $password = masterkey; $dbh = ibase_pconnect ($host, $username, $password); $stmt = SELECT * FROM EVENTTYP; $sth = ibase_query ($dbh, $stmt); I get the following error: Warning: ibase_pconnect() [function.ibase-pconnect]: Unable to complete network request to host 10.1.4.58. Failed to locate host machine. Undefined service gds_db/tcp. in d:\htdocs\Website\PHP\dtest.php on line 17 Warning: ibase_query() [function.ibase-query]: invalid database handle (no active connection) in d:\htdocs\Website\PHP\dtest.php on line 20 I was able to use isql to remotely connect using the parameters above. What am I not doing on the PHP end to get this to work? -- -James -- -James
Re: [PHP] php/osx and firebird
On Wed, June 15, 2005 9:04 am, James said: $host = 10.1.4.58:c:\fbwin50\fbdata\fbdata.fdb; $username = SYSDBA; $password = masterkey; $dbh = ibase_pconnect ($host, $username, $password); $stmt = SELECT * FROM EVENTTYP; $sth = ibase_query ($dbh, $stmt); Warning: ibase_pconnect() [function.ibase-pconnect]: Unable to complete network request to host 10.1.4.58. Failed to locate host machine. Undefined service gds_db/tcp. in d:\htdocs\Website\PHP\dtest.php on line 17 I don't know diddly-squat about this Firebird ibase stuff, but this sounds to me like a network error message that your PHP machine can't get to the Firebird machine. Start at the lowest level. Can you ping 10.1.4.58 from your PHP box? It might be configured/firewalled to not let you do ping so it's not REQUIRED that ping work for your PHP script to work, but it's at least a start. Warning: ibase_query() [function.ibase-query]: invalid database handle (no active connection) in d:\htdocs\Website\PHP\dtest.php on line 20 Ignore this for now -- It's a direct result of the first error. I was able to use isql to remotely connect using the parameters above. Wow. Okay, that's way better than my ping test above... Still, double check that this still works, just to be SURE. What am I not doing on the PHP end to get this to work? PHP runs as the user defined by User directive in httpd.conf Odds are really good your isql remote test was run by you logged in as, errr, whatever Windows logs you in as, or whatever you log in as, if you're on a Windows box that has logins, or... Well, anyway, it almost for sure is not the same User as you have set in httpd.conf In the ideal world, you'd know how to log into your Windows box as the PHP User -- If you *DO* log in to your Windows box, then do this. If not, JUST FOR TESTING, you could change the User setting in httpd.conf to be, like, Administrator or whatever the Windoze root user is called this week. Restart Apache, and test. If that works, you have narrowed it down to a permissions problem. God only knows how you fix that under Windows, but it's the most likely source of your problem. The thing you *DO* *NOT* want to do, no matter what, is leave Apache running as Administrator! Change it back immediately after your test. If you have to choose between running PHP as Admin, and getting fired because you can't make this work, start looking for a new job. It's that important. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php/osx and firebird
James wrote:
I've attempted to access a firebird database living on an osx/apache/php
machine.
When I'm running the following script,
?php
ini_set(magic_quotes_sybase, On);
$host =
'localhost:/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Resources/examples/employee.fdb';
for portability and ease of use I recommend using aliases with firebird.
firebird
has a file named aliases.conf which should contain the following line:
exampledb =
/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Resources/examples/employee.fdb
once you have restarted firebird you can write the host var like so:
$host = 'localhost:exampledb';
$username = sysdba;
$password = masterkey;
$dbh = ibase_connect($host, $username, $password);
if (!($dbh=ibase_connect($host, 'sysdba', 'yourpass', 'ISO8859_1',
0, 1)))
die('Could not connect: ' . ibase_errmsg());
$stmt = 'SELECT * FROM employee';
$sth = ibase_query($dbh, $stmt);
while ($row = ibase_fetch_object($sth)) {
echo $row-full_name, \n;
}
ibase_free_result($sth);
ibase_close($dbh);
?
I get the following error:
Call to undefined function ibase_connect()
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.
oh dear you are lost (no offence, I know the feeling!).
configuring in this instance means configuring the 'build' before you
compile php this may not even be necessary in your
case (if you have the interbase extension already built)
at any rate there should not be anything like '--with-interbase=' in
your php.ini!
instead you will need a line that goes something like:
extension=php_interbase.dll (windows)
only in your case the extension will be called something like
php_interbase.so
php_ibase.so
php_ibase.dylib (I guess, could be wrong)
Am I pointing to the wrong directory? What other configuration/setup do
I have to do to enable php's interbase functions?
you need to have a binary of the php interbase extension suitable for your
php build AND you need to load the extension
Thanks.
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[PHP] php/osx and firebird
I've attempted to access a firebird database living on an
osx/apache/php machine.
When I'm running the following script,
?php
ini_set(magic_quotes_sybase, On);
$host =
'localhost:/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Resources/examples/employee.fdb';
$username = sysdba;
$password = masterkey;
$dbh = ibase_connect($host, $username, $password);
if (!($dbh=ibase_connect($host, 'sysdba', 'yourpass',
'ISO8859_1', 0, 1)))
die('Could not connect: ' . ibase_errmsg());
$stmt = 'SELECT * FROM employee';
$sth = ibase_query($dbh, $stmt);
while ($row = ibase_fetch_object($sth)) {
echo $row-full_name, \n;
}
ibase_free_result($sth);
ibase_close($dbh);
?
I get the following error:
Call to undefined function ibase_connect()
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.
Am I pointing to the wrong directory? What other configuration/setup
do I have to do to enable php's interbase functions?
Thanks.
--
-James
Re: [PHP] php/osx and firebird
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() -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] php/osx and firebird
James wrote: 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. That does not sound like a program directory. Check the Firebird installation guide - /opt/firebird is the most likely location, but does depend on which version of Linux and how it was installed. Am I pointing to the wrong directory? What other configuration/setup do I have to do to enable php's interbase functions? Once you have installed with the right directory, phpinfo() will show the module details. -- Lester Caine - L.S.Caine Electronic Services -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
