Interbase connection with PDO Firebird

In Scriptcase, we have the following driver available for Interbase connections: PDO Firebird. If you are using your own pre-configured environment, Interbase extensions must be enabled manually in PHP.

Prerequisites

If you are using a manual installation on Windows, you will need to enable the PDO Firebird extension in the php.ini file. See below for how to do this.

1 - In the php.ini file, located under C:\php, uncomment the line for Firebird extension: pdo_firebird by removing the ; from the beginning of the line. See the example below:

2 - Restart the Apache service using the Task Manager.

• Open Task Manager and click on the Services tab.

• Look for the Apache2.4 or ApacheScriptcase9php81 service and right-click on this service, then Restart.

Creating a connection in Scriptcase

Here’s how to create a connection in your Scriptcase project using the Firebird database.

1 - Access any project from your Scriptcase.

2 - Click on the New connection icon to create a connection.

or go to the Database > New Connection menu.

After that a new page will appear with all the database connections.

3 - Select the Firebird connection.

Connection

Enter the parameters for connecting to your Firebird database as follows:

• Connection Name: Set the name of your new connection. By default, Scriptcase adds the prefix conn along with the database name.

• DBMS Driver: Select the Firebird Driver used to connect. In this example we use the Firebird PDO Driver.

• Server/Host (Name or IP): Enter the IP or domain of the server where the database is installed.
  • Ex: serverdomain.com or 192.168.254.170.
• Port: Enter the numeric port for your database server.
  • Ex: 3050

• Database Name: Enter the database created for use by the entered user.

• Username: Enter the user to authenticate the connection to your Firebird database.

• Password: Enter the password to complete the authentication process.

• Test Connection: Click this button to get a response from Scriptcase request to know if the entered parameters are correct.

Filter

By accessing this tab, you can configure which items from the Database will be displayed in the connection, depending on the owner or not.

Show

Allows the Firebird connection to see tables, views, system tables and procedures depending on the items selected by the user. By default, the items Tables and Views are already selected by Scriptcase.

• Tables: By selecting this option, the tables in your database will be displayed.
  • By default, Scriptcase enables this option.
    
    
• Views: Selecting this option will display your database views.
  • By default, Scriptcase enables this option.
    
    

• System tables: By selecting this option, the system tables of your database will be displayed.

• Procedures: When you select this option, the procedures from your database will be displayed.

Searches

Allows you to define which tables and owners are displayed.

• Tables: You can define in this option which tables are displayed. The setting can contain a PREFIX% or name of the tables to be displayed.
  • By default, Scriptcase leaves this option empty.
  • Ex:
    
    

  

• Owner: Inform the user who sees the inserted tables for display.
  • User must be in capital letters, as in the example above.
    
    
• Show: Choose whether tables are displayed for the owner entered.

NOTE: By using table filtering, you eliminate unnecessary tables for your project and improve the performance of your database connection.

Advanced

In this tab, you have access to connection-specific settings. Changes made in this section impact the data display and performance of the application.

Charset

Select the encoding used in your database.

Role

Defines the user role for the database session. Roles are used to manage permissions and access control within Firebird.

You can set more than one role for the user separating them by using the “;”

Dialect

Determines the SQL dialect used in the connection. Firebird supports different dialects (1, 2, or 3), which affect SQL syntax and behavior.

If the option in the database is set to 2, it doesn’t matter what option you choose in this field.

• Options:
  • Empty - Gets the default from the database.
  • 1 - Old version of Firebird (1.5) > Does not support timestamp, Numeric or Decimal
  • 2 - Version with timestamp support
  • 3 - Version - Newer versions (Case sensitive and compatible with Firebird 2.5, 3 and 4)

Decimal Separator

Select the separator type for decimal records, between comma and period.

• By default, period . is selected as the separator.

Persistent connection

Set whether connections will be closed after your scripts run in Scriptcase applications.

• By default, Scriptcase disables this option.

Use schema before table name

Set whether the database schema is displayed before table names.

• By default, Scriptcase enables this option.

  • Ex: