building minimal php with only firebird/interbase extension

if you want to build minimal an php+firebird extension only setup
here is how to do it without xml/mysql/sqlite and all that stuff that
you might not need it

tar -jxvf php-5.2.6.tar.bz2
cd php-5.2.6/

./configure --disable-all --with-interbase --prefix=/tmp/foo
--with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs
make
make install


/tmp/foo/bin/

./php -m
[PHP Modules]
date
interbase
Reflection
standard

[Zend Modules]


and you can test the minimal php and eats less memory in apache/lighttpd/nginix

-- ls -lah php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.5M 2008-06-19 17:35 php





.:(firebird):..:(databases):..:(sql):.

gambas 2 (development version) 1.9.90 [LWN.net]

Homepage: http://gambas.sourceforge.net
More Info: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=20018
Description: Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic (but it is NOT a clone!). With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and so on...
Changelog: see http://gambas.sourceforge.net/changelog2.html

gambas 2 (development version) 1.9.90 [LWN.net]

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Firebird Development: Firebird 3.0 is with 7-10% faster than firebird 2.1.x

The most important of what was done during last months is certainly start of FB3 project. This is B3_0_transition tree. We try to keep it stable at the same time making big code cleanup, including MT stability. This tree is going to become a base for FB3. For today the main result that after cleanup it's stable on linux, at the same time showing 7-10% better performance compared with fb2.1. I do not mention separately later problems, fixed in 3.0 transition.

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