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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

HowTo: Install Firebird/Interbase with PHP on Windows. A step-by-step tutorial.



  • Copy C:\firebird\bin\fbclient.dll to your C:\windows\system32 directory and rename the file to gds32.dll
  • Copy php_interbase.dll from your php\ext directory to the C:\windows\system32 directory.
  • Copy libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll from your php directory to the C:\windows\system32directory.
  • Edit your php.ini, un-comment the line
    extension=php_interbase.dll
    (you have to remove the semicolon from that line).
  • Restart your webserver (Apache).