(PECL PDO_FIREBIRD >= 0.1.0)
PDO_FIREBIRD DSN — Connecting to Firebird databases
The PDO_FIREBIRD Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements:
The DSN prefix is firebird:.
The name of the database.
The character set.
The SQL role name.
Example #1 PDO_FIREBIRD DSN example with path
The following example shows a PDO_FIREBIRD DSN for connecting to Firebird databases:
firebird:dbname=/path/to/DATABASE.FDB
Example #2 PDO_FIREBIRD DSN example with port and path
The following example shows a PDO_FIREBIRD DSN for connecting to a Firebird database using hostname port and path:
firebird:dbname=hostname/port:/path/to/DATABASE.FDB
Example #3 PDO_FIREBIRD DSN example with localhost and path to employee.fdb on Debian system
The following example shows a PDO_FIREBIRD DSN for connecting to a Firebird database employee.fdb using localhost:
firebird:dbname=localhost:/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/employee.fdb