How to use Firebird with PHP5 on Ubuntu or Debian?

Step 1: If you can't install Firebird support for PHP5 from official repositories, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and add:

deb http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5 sarge
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~dexter php5 sarge

and then update:

# apt-get update

Step 2: Now, simply install the module:

# apt-get install php5.0-firebird

It will also offer to install Apache, PHP5 and all the related packages. When done, make sure you restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

Enjoy.

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