Month: October 2008
FirebirdConfig is now Open Source
FirebirdConfig is an utility to help people to configure the parameters available in firebird.conf file. Now, anyone can join the project and help with the development. The language used is Delphi/Kylix.
FBGrid – CRUD operations for php
Luis wrote on firebird-php : Hi, check the following address [1] where you can download a PHP class that make CRUD operations on a Firebird/Interbase table.
Still needs much work to do …
Suggestions, modifications and corrections are welcome.
Installing and libdbi abstraction layer for Firebird c api
If you wish firebird C api were simpler to use similar to dbi api that is used in the perl world
then now you can with the help of libdbi and it’s nice C api , Here is my howto install such an abstraction layer over the standard Firebird C api.
Here is how the libdbi example should look for firebird
Database Blues – with Firebird data pump problem
I’ve got a database problem.
So I’m throwing this out to the rather small readership I have here in the hopes that someone knows some SQL code or something that can help us out.
CakePHP RC3 – The RC of Triumph!
It’s finally here: the final release before the final release of
CakePHP 1.2 [ED:Tested and works just fine with Firebird 2.1]
Some of you may remember the benchmarks posted by Rasmus Lerdorf, in
which CakePHP did not perform so well. We can all debate Rasmus’ due
diligence (or lack of), but what was clear was that we had some
catching up to do. Over the past few weeks, Larry has worked
tirelessly on iteration after iteration of performance improvements,
and now we’re faster than ever before. By itself, the bootstrap
process is over 10x faster than RC2, and basic requests for static
content are now about 5x faster overall.
Patch for DotNet Provider 1.7 to connect against Firebird 2.1
Attached is a patch file ( a ZIP file with extension changed , you should rename it from piz to zip ) with
changes to allow v1.7 of the provider to connect against Firebird 2.1,
changes has been done by backporting 2.5 svn sources to the v1.7 sources.
[ED: soon there will be an v1.7 release that will integrate this patch]
Firebird Developers’ Day 2008 – Czech Republic
As we have already informed you, we organize the 16th
October together with x2develop.com second annual training conference on the Firebird database platform.
Conference Firebird Developers’ Day 2008 will take place 16th
October 2008 at Prague’s Charles University Faculty of Science, Albertov 6, in the hall known as the Tower. K
Fixed bugs in php – crash on query with errors in params
Thanks to Felipe Pena for fixing many php bugs related to firebird extension . This is an example how bug has been fixed in CVS.
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45373
Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
Building Firebird 2.1.x with Mingw compilier
Here is my how Firebird 2.1.x can be build with Mingw(g++) compiler on windows or wine
This in case you like and the gcc tools on all platforms (Linux, Windows, Macosx, Unix ..)