php5 and firebird pdo on ubuntu hardy , jaunty , intrepid - choose your poison

First method is using the old source code from pear channel (pear install pdo_firebird doesn't work )
sudo apt-get install php5-dev firebird2-dev php-pear

sudo pecl install pdo

wget http://pecl.php.net/get/PDO_FIREBIRD-0.2.tgz

tar -zxvf PDO_FIREBIRD-0.2.tgz

cd PDO_FIREBIRD-0.2

phpize

./configure

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.2.1.1 /usr/lib/libgds.so

make

sudo make install

check to have in php.ini to have the next lines

also with phpinfo() function

# configuration for php PDO module

extension=pdo.so

extension=pdo_firebird.so

~

~

~

second method is to use the official php5 source from ubuntu and build only the pdo firebird extension and install it

sudo apt-get install php5-dev firebird2-dev php-pear devscripts debget

sudo pecl install pdo

you need to build the pdo extension from php from ubuntu source code

here is the source for php package

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/php5

you need to install dget

dget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/php5/php5_5.2.4-2ubuntu5.5.dsc

cd php5-5.2.6.dfsg.1

cd ext

cd pdo_firebird

phpize

./configure

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libfbclient.so.2.1.1 /usr/lib/libgds.so

make

sudo make install

check to have in php.ini to have the next lines

also with phpinfo() function

# configuration for php PDO module

extension=pdo.so

extension=pdo_firebird.so

php -i | grep PDO

PDO

PDO support => enabled

PDO drivers => firebird

PDO_Firebird

PDO Driver for Firebird/InterBase => enabled