Howto install Firebird 2.1.x Classic on Debian Experimental
Here are my notes on installing/using Firebird 2.1.x Classic and Flamerobin .9 on Debian , soon i will update the ubuntu wiki page
Here are my notes on installing/using Firebird 2.1.x Classic and Flamerobin .9 on Debian , soon i will update the ubuntu wiki page
The changes in this release are as follows:
The LCL now uses Unicode strings encoded as UTF-8 on all platforms.
Lazarus now runs natively under Mac OS X using the “Carbon” widget
set. The LCL internal graphic system was rewritten for more
consistency, more flexibility, better Delphi compatibility, icon
support, and native image lists. The IDE designer now allows you to
connect form components, like databases on TDataModule.
Lazarus can be used with Firebird and there are many components to choose UIB, Zeos , FbLib , PDO…
Dmitry Kuzmenko has an interesting post in his blog that tries to describe what is the “Firebird Project” and “Firebird Foundation” (as well its papers in the whole thing). Also, it has some interesting statistics about downloads and installations, ie:
…But it stands more than 5000 visits every day and log more than 1000 installations at Windows platform per day (!), according to the statistics of the installer’s ‘landing page’. Also there are more than 1 mln downloads of all Firebird installers and other files per year from the sourceforge.
Read the full post.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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]