A new version of the Firebird PHP driver is available.

Adrian Marius Popa

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Dec 10, 2020, 10:15:05 AM12/10/20

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A new version of the Firebird PHP driver is available. Precompiled binaries for PHP 7.3 , 7.4 and 8.0 are available at the download section.

The driver is marked as 1.1.0 stable .

https://firebirdsql.org/en/php-driver/

Emil Totev

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Jan 4, 2021, 10:39:12 AM1/4/21

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Found the time to test on CentOS 7 with PHP8.

The precompiled driver fails to load because of an unresolved symbol:
(/usr/lib64/php/modules/interbase.so: undefined symbol: TSRMLS_SET_CTX)) in Unknown on line 0

I managed to compile the module myself and it then loads and seems to work. However when I run 'make test', 12 of the 22 tests FAIL. Is this expected, or I should be looking into each of these failures separately to try and understand what's wrong?

Thanks

Emil

martin.koeditz

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Jan 5, 2021, 2:12:51 AM1/5/21

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Hi Emil,

thank you for the feedback. It's kind of strange, since I commited a fix for the described problem, but maybe I just packed an old compiled version. I will check this weekend.

I never run the test cases. I always get wrong results. But maybe I'm able to create a new workflow or to fix the old one. Will check this too.

Regards

Martin

Emil Totev

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Jan 5, 2021, 2:26:32 AM1/5/21

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Hi Martin

It would probably help if you can somehow include the commit hash in that "Interbase extension version" that phpinfo() is showing.

Regards

Emil

martin.koeditz

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Jan 5, 2021, 4:28:03 AM1/5/21

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The commit hash is generated after checking in the code. So I cannot include it into the version info.

Martin

Emil Totev

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Jan 5, 2021, 4:53:53 AM1/5/21

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Directly in the source code - no. But many projects do it, I think, as a step in the build process - the information is extracted into a temporary file that is included or passed to the compiler in a variable. At least for 'official' builds that are going to be released.

It is very useful to know what exactly version of a software you are running - especially in cases like this. The alternative way of doing that would be to make sure you manually increase a build number before every commit or so, like the Firebird project itself are doing, but this is prone to errors.

Regards

Emil

martin.koeditz

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Jan 9, 2021, 12:52:20 PM1/9/21

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Emil,

can you check the available version on Github against the TSRMLS_SET_CTX error? I uploaded a recompiled version.

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/php-firebird/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Thanks

Martin

Emil Totev

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Jan 9, 2021, 1:05:06 PM1/9/21

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Hi Martin

The new version of php-8.0.0-interbase-1.1.0-linux-x64.so works OK for me on CentOS 7. One of these days I am going to try it on Centos 8 as well and let you know.

Regards

John vd Waeter

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Apr 25, 2021, 6:31:03 AM4/25/21

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Hi,

I'm forced to upgrade my website from Debian 7 PHP 5 to Debian 9, PHP 7.4 and I noticed there's no apt-get php7-interbase anymore.
Am I correct that this 1.1.0 driver is a replacement for that?

If so, I really need the steps to install this driver... anyone?

Thanks in advance!

John

Emil Totev

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Apr 25, 2021, 9:13:53 AM4/25/21

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Hi John

I haven't tried this on Debian yet, but on CentOS it was quite straight-forward: you copy interbase.so to the php extensions directory (on CentOS it was /usr/lib64/php/modules/interbase.so) and make sure you have the line 'extension=interbase' in your php.ini.

Regards

Emil

John vd Waeter

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Apr 25, 2021, 12:07:00 PM4/25/21

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Emil,

Thanks, that seems to work :)
I'll do some extensive testing and report back.

Cheers,

John

John vd Waeter

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May 2, 2021, 8:00:36 AM5/2/21

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Sofar no problems. Must say I'm testing against Firebird 2.5.9 on Debian.
John

Franz Fortuny L

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Oct 29, 2021, 5:40:28 PM10/29/21

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However, at that page, the latest driver for PHP DOES NOT WORK if you are using Firebird 4.

It shows the following problems:

[Fri Oct 29 15:51:42.587324 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 7302] [client ::1:37456] PHP Warning: ibase_fetch_row(): Incorrect values within SQLDA structure in /mnt/c/Users/frafo/OneDrive/ador 2/des/erp4/glfb/glfb.php on line 99, referer: http://localhost/erp4/glfb/

[Fri Oct 29 16:17:20.456526 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 7321] [client ::1:37472] PHP Warning: ibase_fetch_row(): Incorrect values within SQLDA structure in /mnt/c/Users/frafo/OneDrive/ador 2/des/erp4/glfb/glfb.php on line 99, referer: http://localhost/erp4/glfb/

And some other times that same problem even restarts Apache2 completely:

[Fri Oct 29 15:42:50.025495 2021] [php7:warn] [pid 7124] [client ::1:37438] PHP Warning: ibase_fetch_row(): Incorrect values within SQLDA structure in /mnt/c/Users/frafo/OneDrive/ador 2/des/erp4/glfb/glfb.php on line 99, referer: http://localhost/erp4/glfb/

[Fri Oct 29 15:42:50.445957 2021] [core:notice] [pid 7120] AH00052: child pid 7124 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

So, Firebird 4 is UNUSABLE to connect to a PHP app that has lots of scripts.

It failes where AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS should return sum() or avg(), but NOT count().

I have reported the problem. It was marked as a BUG. The bug is present under Window 10 (the dll) and under Ubuntu 20.04 under WSL 2.

No new PHP drivers are available, yet.

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