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Firebird is not covered by PhpDbSwitch so far. Here a starting point for the receipe.

You are invited to fill and fintune below sceleton.

(1) Receipe 'Run Firebird server'.

(1.1) Firebird is available from http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-1-4. The download options are a bit confusing ...

(1.2) Install the downloaded Firebird on Windows. ...

(1.2) Configure Firebird, e.g. Port, ...

(2) Recipe 'Access Firebird from PHP'

(2.1) Switch on extension php_pdo_firebird.dll in the php.ini file.

(2.2) Since the Firebird PDO driver is delivered with PHP by default, good luck, no install of anything is needed. This may be worth to be noted.

(2.3) Nevertheless might exist alternative drivers available at other places.

(2.4) The Firebird SQL language is hopefully plain, not special. So the SQL statements should go largely fine.