Laravel Informix Database Package
Laravel-ifx is an Informix Database Driver package for Laravel Framework - thanks @taylorotwell. Laravel-ifx is an extension of Illuminate/Database that uses either the PDO extension wrapped into the PDO namespace.
Please report any bugs you may find.
Installation
Require the package:
$ composer require poyii/laravel-ifx
Skip below step if you are running Laravel newer than 5.6.
Once Composer has installed or updated your packages you need to register Informix DB. Open up config/app.php and find
the providers key and add:
Poyii\Informix\InformixDBServiceProvider::class,Finally, add the following in config/database.php, in connections key.
'informix' => [
'driver' => 'informix',
'host' => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
'service' => env('DB_SERVICE', '11143'),
'server' => env('DB_SERVER', ''),
'db_locale' => 'en_US.819',
'client_locale' => 'en_US.819',
'db_encoding' => 'GBK',
'initSqls' => false,
'client_encoding' => 'UTF-8',
'prefix' => '',
],This will copy the configuration file to config/informix.php
Set Informix DB .env
You may need to add the following in the .env file if you are not have it in your environment setup.
INFORMIXDIR=/opt/IBM/informix
INFORMIXSERVER=ol-your-server
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/IBM/informix/lib/:/opt/IBM/informix/lib/cli:/opt/IBM/informix/lib/esql
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/IBM/informix/bin:/opt/IBM/informix/lib
License
Licensed under the MIT License.