6. Developing Web Applications with PHP and Firebird

In this chapter, we are going to create a web application using the PHP language with Firebird as the back-end. It is assumed that you have a web server, such as Apache HTTP Server or Nginx with PHP installed and active and a Firebird server available in the stack and running. A lightweight, stand-alone package such as QuickPHP would be enough for testing and debugging your project locally.

If your server supports PHP, you just create your .php files, put them in your web directory and the server will automatically parse them for you. PHP-enabled files are simply HTML files with a whole language of custom tags embedded in them. There is nothing to compile.