IBM Universe + PHP

Hi there, I am coming here as a last resort (yes I have thoroughly googled) . Work has purchased aad space sales application that uses a U2 low level database. I am having extreme issues trying toget PHP on unix to be able to talk to this database or sync it with mysql. We have the I386 versionon cd , it comes with the server and odbc client driver. I have managed to connect on windowsfine, what I am trying to work out is how to get an odbc connection via PHP. I have been in searchfor a unix driver for universe with no success :| Would a DB2 driver work ? I havent tried it yet, if icould find a unix .so style driver for Universe i could connect easily via iodbc and the odbcextension right ? If anyone has had a success story please let me know thanks. Daniel