PHP and InterBase

[Buddski]

Hey Guys,

This is a major headache. Here is the background.

I have currently written a reporting system in PHP that connects to an InterBase server on an external machine (currently running in our office) and a MySQL server locally (Linux web hosting). It then correlates the required data and funnily enough.. Outputs a report (The InterBase database holds "sales and leads" created from an external application used by the client and the MySQL holds all of our media bookings, hence the 2 seperate databases)

I have used the PHP InterBase functions in my code and everything was perfect until we had to make it functional.. The client will not create a server at their office for us to get the latest database (it is updated weekly) and instead has opted to create an offsite FTP location to upload the 7 x 90mb GDB files.

 

So.. My questions is, and im pretty sure it is impossible, can I connect to this "server" using the PHP Interbase functions or even an ODBC connection? Keep in mind this server does NOT have the InterBase server running on it.. it is just a file server.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.