Unfortunately the informix extension has been moved to PECL but has no maintainer.
http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/1621#Heading11
In practic terms, it has been moved but is not available in PECL yet.
It's sad. I have a big client who uses this extension for more than 6 years and now has to change a code base of 500,000 lines of code or install an old version of PHP in the new server. They recently bought a redundant, double cpu, 8 gb ram, scsi disk server and will not be happy to run old versions of software with unmaintained extensions.
Fonctions Informix
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- ifx_affected_rows — Retourne le nombre de lignes affectées par une requête
- ifx_blobinfile_mode — Choisit le mode par défaut des objets BLOB pour toutes les requêtes SELECT
- ifx_byteasvarchar — Choisit le mode par défaut des objets BYTE
- ifx_close — Ferme une connexion à un serveur Informix
- ifx_connect — Ouvre une connexion à un serveur Informix
- ifx_copy_blob — Duplique un BLOB
- ifx_create_blob — Crée un objet BLOB
- ifx_create_char — Crée un objet char
- ifx_do — Exécute une requête SQL préparée
- ifx_error — Retourne le code d'erreur de la dernière requête Informix
- ifx_errormsg — Retourne le message d'erreur de la dernière requête Informix
- ifx_fetch_row — Retourne une ligne sous la forme d'un tableau énuméré
- ifx_fieldproperties — Liste les propriétés des champs SQL
- ifx_fieldtypes — Liste les champs Informix SQL
- ifx_free_blob — Supprime un objet BLOB
- ifx_free_char — Supprime un objet char
- ifx_free_result — Libère les ressources prises par un résultat
- ifx_get_blob — Retourne le contenu d'un objet BLOB
- ifx_get_char — Retourne le contenu d'un objet char
- ifx_getsqlca — Retourne le contenu de la variable sqlca.sqlerrd[0..5] après une requête
- ifx_htmltbl_result — Lit toutes les lignes d'un tableau, et le met sous la forme d'un tableau HTML
- ifx_nullformat — Modifie le mode par défaut de lecture des valeurs
- ifx_num_fields — Retourne le nombre de colonnes d'une requête
- ifx_num_rows — Compte le nombre de lignes déjà lues dans un résultat
- ifx_pconnect — Ouvre une connexion persistante à un serveur Informix
- ifx_prepare — Prépare une requête SQL pour l'exécution
- ifx_query — Envoie une requête Informix
- ifx_textasvarchar — Choisit le mode par défaut des objets texte
- ifx_update_blob — Modifie le contenu d'un objet BLOB
- ifx_update_char — Modifie le contenu d'un objet char
- ifxus_close_slob — Ferme un objet SLOB
- ifxus_create_slob — Crée un objet SLOB et l'ouvre
- ifxus_free_slob — Supprime un objet SLOB
- ifxus_open_slob — Ouvre un objet SLOB
- ifxus_read_slob — Lit des octets dans un objet SLOB
- ifxus_seek_slob — Fixe le fichier courant ou la position courante
- ifxus_tell_slob — Retourne le fichier courant ou la position courante
- ifxus_write_slob — Écrit une chaîne dans un objet SLOB
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User Contributed Notes 10 notes
roger at wzero dot com dot br ¶
17 years ago
Ian McMurray ¶
19 years ago
Installation on RedHat Fedore Core (or in that matter any Linux OS which has a version of glibc of 2.3.* ~or above~) will need to have the latest Informix CSDK (downloadable from IBM). 2.90.UC1.LINUX at the time of this post.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/tools/connect/
I was unable to make PHP with v2.80 of the csdk (as it complained about mktemp being dangerous and how ctype was undefined. After downloading csdk 2.90, I was able to make PHP with no problems at all. (--with-informix).
There goes 2 days of my life!
Feel free to drop me an email at ian_at_devtonic_dot_com if you have any questions.
jeff at domintcom dot com ¶
22 years ago
add the following to /etc/profile (right before unset i (adjust to your needs)
export INFORMIXDIR=/opt/informix
export ODBCINI=/usr/local/etc/odbc.ini
export INFORMIXSERVER=m_srv
then add the following to your httpd.conf
PassEnv INFORMIXDIR
PassEnv ODBCINI
PassEnv INFORMIXSERVER
(or you can use SetEnv SetEnv INFORMIXDIR /opt/informix etc.)
cornecNOSPAM at reach dot NO_SPAM dot com ¶
22 years ago
I upgraded to csdk-2.70.UC3-1 and got the following error when trying to start apache:
Syntax error on line 205 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp4.so into server: /opt/informix/lib/esql/libifgen.so: undefined symbol: stat
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
This machine has glibc 2.3.5
The following fixed the problem for me (surely there's a better fix) but i'm not sure how it might affect other programs linked to libifgen
mkdir /tmp/ifx
cd /tmp/ifx
ar x $INFORMIXDIR/lib/esql/libifgen.a
gcc -shared -o libifgen.so *.o
cp libifgen.so $INFORMIXDIR/lib/esql
programacion at afinformatica dot com ¶
22 years ago
I have compile php-4.0.6 with informix support (dynamic) and when I try to
start apache, it gives me this error message:
Syntax error on line 246 of /etc/httpd/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.so into server: /home/informix7/lib/esql/lib
ifgen.so: undefined symbol: stat
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
isaac dot hopley at morton-fraser dot NO_SPAM dot com ¶
23 years ago
If you are tring to access an Informix Online 5.x server over the
network (ie from a webserver) using PHP, be aware that Online
doesn't support network communications as standard unlike later versions.
You need the Informix product 'I-Star' on your Online server.
This will allow your webserver with the informix client SDK
installed to communicate natively (ESQL).
Thanks go to Mario @ PRS for this info.
old dot wolf at project-w dot com ¶
23 years ago
An intermittent SQL error -25580 is caused by using the wrong glibc version in Linux.
I have this working correctly in Linux (x86) with Informix Client SDK for 2.70UC-1 for Linux, with glibc 2.1.3.
Originally I had glibc 2.1.1 (Red Hat 6), which gave the intermittent error, but upgrading glibc fixed it.
The Informix Client SDKs can be downloaded from www.informix.com (you need to own an Informix database to log on), and glibc is at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc .
MarkRoedel at letu dot edu ¶
23 years ago
There's also a FreeBSD version of the client libraries that'll work with PHP. It's not available for download from their website, but you can request a copy (cd or electronic delivery) by calling Informix Customer Support at 1-800-274-8184 option 3.
Some customer service reps know more about alternative operating systems than others, so you may have to do a bit of educating before they can locate the product in their database, but it's definitely there.
My e-mail confirmation referred to it as "Orderable Part Number 100-15871-204057-1", although that number may be specific to the electronically-delivered edition.
robernet at music-images dot com ¶
24 years ago
Verify with phpinfo() that you have informix module compiled in php.
Also verify that env vars INFORMIXDIR, INFORMIXSERVER, LD_LIBRARY_PATH are set, and that PATH have a route to your informix subdir.
drsound ¶
20 years ago
I just wrote a mini-HOWTO about adding Informix support to mod_php running on a Gentoo Linux server (x86). I wanted to post it here but it was too long. You can find it on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=245249 (just in case for some reason they change the thread number, the title is "HOWTO: PHP Informix client support").
