pdo2 in php – Who needs it?
Following the discussion around PDO2 and CLAs
in the PHP world, I read this email (from Derick) today:
Why not just do the “right thing” ™:
Category: General news
Firebird related news
New Camaro db engine – better than Maria
Read the answer to the question “Anyone here ever used the Firebird db engine?”
Delphi 2008 survey
CodeGear is running an on-line survey about what customers would like to see in Delphi 2008. One of the questions: “Which databases do you require Delphi connectivity with?”
Firebird is among the choices so, it’s time to show to CodeGear the real need for official drivers supporting Firebird in Delphi. Vote now!
Firebird embedded example for delphi is now ported to lazarus
I modified fb_embedded2.pas originally written for Delphi by Fikret Hasovic. Now it works with Lazarus!
great news for firebird .net provider
Jiri wrote on the mailing list
I have a great news for you. 🙂 I’ve got offer from Paul Beach to
continue with developement of NETProvider as lead and maintaining it
etc. I’ve accepted and I’ve got some privileges to do the “maintaining
work”. So the project isn’t dead. I hope we’ll kick-up the FB & .NET.
🙂
interesting stats on the php lists
you can check the php lists stats that are related to firebird
Sun buys MySQL = opportunity to Firebird
Marco Cantu posted in his blog some comments about the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun. Among his considerations, Marco see this as a good opportunity to Firebird, a trully OpenSource project (and product):
I think this is another great opportunity for a truly open source and fully independent database like FireBird (and to a much lesser extend for InterBase)
flamerobin added support for blobs
Milan Babuskov added support for Blobs in flamerobin , We have now an poll where we ask how to display the Blob content (on the right side of the site) You can test the new features using the snapshots If you don’t want to build FlameRobin from the sources, but still want to run the bleeding edge version, you can fetch the latest binary snapshot builds from the download section.
New Gold Sponsor – Bas-X Business Management Services of Queensland
Today Bas-X Business Management Services of Queensland, Australia, established a new gold sponsorship. Thanks to Bas-X™ Managing Director Tony Wilder and welcome to the Foundation.
How to: Php + Firebird with examples
Here is an example on working with ibase/firebird extension in php