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Yes this line is uncommented (i would not be getting the error log if it wasn't trying to load the module). I have now resolved this by re-installing php using the msi installer. The reason I moved away from the msi installer was because it no longer has the option of including firebird pdo. I have to say that the php developers should really have look at improving the error logs. Stating that a module cannot be found, when it clearly can is not helpful. Also please re-instate firebird pdo in the 5.3 msi installer for windows.

PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\php\ext\php_ldap.dll' - The specified module could not be found. I get the above error message in the apache error logs when starting apache, also phpinfo does not indicate that LDAP module has been loaded. I have chaecked the obvious, that the php_ldap.dll does exist in the path shown in the error message. I have also checked that c:\php is in my PATH environmental variable, so the system should be able to access libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll. Just to make sure I have also tried copying those dll files to the windows system32 folder. However I still get the above error message. Here is the configure command from phpinfo; cscript /nologo configure.js "--enable-snapshot-build" "--disable-isapi" "--enable-debug-pack" "--disable-isapi" "--without-mssql" "--without-pdo-mssql" "--without-pi3web" "--with-pdo-oci=D:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient10\sdk,shared" "--with-oci8=D:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient10\sdk,shared" "--with-oci8-11g=D:\php-sdk\oracle\instantclient11\sdk,shared" "--enable-object-out-dir=../obj/" "--enable-com-dotnet" "--with-mcrypt=static" "--disable-static-analyze" Because there is nothing in the configure command regarding ldap, does this mean that my copy of PHP was not compiled for LDAP? (I may be on the wrong track). If so, where can I get a copy of PHP5.3 that is compiled for windows with LDAP support.

Does anyone use Firebird PDO on php5.3 this options is no longer included in the msi installer. I have tried the zip download, and the php_interbase.dll and php_firebird_pdo.dll files are included, but the wont load. Does anyone know who developes the firebird_pdo driver, or why it has been dropped from the msi installer? Any help apreciated.

Does anyone know why there is no VC6 version of php 5.3.8? With not VC6 version for 5.3.8, I then opted for 5.2.17, but that has the firebird pdo module missing. Can anyone advise the latest version of php for running on windows using apache 2.2 webserver?

wow it's not very friendly here is it? We all need help from time to time, sometimes we need the obvious pointed out to us. I've been coding with php for about a year now and I still consider myself very much a beginner. I have a lot of legacy windows desktop applications that use large firebird backend databases. The world seems to be moving away from desktops and the demand is for flexible and mobile applications accessible from anywhere, ie the internet. I like the concept of php because it is free and open source. It has a large community and is regularly updated. The downside for me is that the most popular database combination is mySQL. I'm not familiar with mySQL and my databases are too large to port to mySQL. I still need to support the desktop applications that use these databases. So i really want firebird support in PHP. I see there are two ways to go with firebird in PHP. There is the php-interbase dll, and then there is the firebird pdo option (I'm not sure but pdo may be using php-interbase dll under the hood). I am using the Zend Framework php framework, and have therefore opted to use pdo firebird. So far my php efforts have been fairly basic, but i am able to create php applications using Zend Framework that are not written for one database in particular. With just a few small changes in config file i can use either mySQL or Firebird interchangeably. Other experts here with many more years of experience than me may tell you that this is not the way to go, but i would suggest looking at Zend Framework and using firebird PDO.