Support for database application development in PHP

Application development for Db2® databases is supported for a range of PHP language versions.

The following table lists versions of the PHP scripting language that are supported for Db2 database application development.

Though the base support is listed in the following table, using the latest version of PHP 5 is recommended.

Unless otherwise noted, the version listed in the following table support both 32-bit and 64-bit application development.

Table 1. Supported versions of the PHP scripting language
Operating System Supported Version(s)
AIX® PHP 7.3 or later for both IBM_DB2 and PDO_IBM driver
Linux® on x86 (32-bit Db2 instances and language only) PHP 7.3 or later for both IBM_DB2 and PDO_IBM driver
Linux on AMD64/EM64T PHP 7.3 or later for both IBM_DB2 and PDO_IBM driver
Linux on POWER® (PowerPC®, System i, IBM® Power Systems) PHP 7.3 or later for both IBM_DB2 and PDO_IBM driver
Linux on zSeries (s/390x) PHP 7.3 or later for both IBM_DB2 and PDO_IBM driver
Windows on x86 (32-bit Db2 instances only) PHP 7.3 or later for both IBM_DB2 and PDO_IBM driver
Windows on x64 (AMD64/EM64T) PHP 7.3 or later for both IBM_DB2 and PDO_IBM driver