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Lorenzo Alberton

20 years ago

Hi,

I'd like to know what's the current status
of the PDO Firebird driver. Today I tested
it a bit, and I believe it's not really in par
with the other drivers.

Is there a public roadmap or a comparison table with
the features already implemented in each driver?
Is Ard still active?

TIA

Best regards,

--
Lorenzo Alberton
http://pear.php.net/user/quipo

Marcus Börger

20 years ago

Hello Lorenzo,

Sunday, April 9, 2006, 8:58:40 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> I'd like to know what's the current status
> of the PDO Firebird driver. Today I tested
> it a bit, and I believe it's not really in par
> with the other drivers.

> Is there a public roadmap or a comparison table with
> the features already implemented in each driver?

No such table is available. In general all drivers should support the
full range once ready. However pdo firebird seems quite abandoned and
i could not make it work on http://gcov.php.net

> Is Ard still active?

That is the important questions :-) Ard?

Best regards,
Marcus

Lester Caine

20 years ago

Marcus Boerger wrote:

> Hello Lorenzo,
>
> Sunday, April 9, 2006, 8:58:40 PM, you wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>
>>I'd like to know what's the current status
>>of the PDO Firebird driver. Today I tested
>>it a bit, and I believe it's not really in par
>>with the other drivers.
>
>>Is there a public roadmap or a comparison table with
>>the features already implemented in each driver?
>
> No such table is available. In general all drivers should support the
> full range once ready. However pdo firebird seems quite abandoned and
> i could not make it work on http://gcov.php.net
>
>>Is Ard still active?
>
> That is the important questions :-) Ard?

It is my understanding that Ard has not done any work on this for some
time, since the lack of some of the key Firebird/Interbase features from
PDO means that we still have to use the native driver as well. So no one
has the time to work on a limited PDO port :(

--
Lester Caine - G8HFL
-----------------------------
L.S.Caine Electronic Services
Treasurer - Firebird Foundation Inc.

Lorenzo Alberton

20 years ago

Hi Marcus,

thanks for your prompt reply

>> I'd like to know what's the current status
>> of the PDO Firebird driver. Today I tested
>> it a bit, and I believe it's not really in par
>> with the other drivers.
>
>> Is there a public roadmap or a comparison table with
>> the features already implemented in each driver?
>
> No such table is available. In general all drivers should support the
> full range once ready. However pdo firebird seems quite abandoned and
> i could not make it work on http://gcov.php.net

I see. That's unfortunate :-|

>> Is Ard still active?
>
> That is the important questions :-) Ard?

I really hope he's still active, he did a terrific
job with the PHP5's interbase extension...

--
Lorenzo Alberton
http://pear.php.net/user/quipo

Ard Biesheuvel

20 years ago

Guys,

Sorry for the late reply. As you might have guessed already, PHP is not
a high priority for me at the moment.

First of all, you will probably remember that I was not completely
satisfied with the direction set out for PDO, the reason being that the
chosen model for PDO doesn't map really well to Firebird/Interbase.
I wholeheartedly agree with 'majority rules' and all of that, and I'm
convinced that PDO will be a great success. But for me, PDO/Firebird
isn't that much of a challenge anymore.

The main reason for not participating lately, however, is that I'm
really busy working in a completely different field. I'm doing research
on PVR-applications for Philips [no, I had nothing to do with the patent
about blocking the controls during a commercial block :-)], and it
doesn't involve PHP or Firebird. So it seems I won't be of any use to
you lot in the near future.


Best regards,

Ard


Lorenzo Alberton wrote:

Wez Furlong

20 years ago

I'm looking for someone to maintain the firebird driver for PDO.

--Wez.

On 4/9/06, Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton@quipo.it> wrote:

Lorenzo Alberton

20 years ago

Wez Furlong wrote:

> I'm looking for someone to maintain the firebird driver for PDO.
>
> --Wez.

I've posted a "call for help" here:

http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=316

also, if anyone is interested, I wrote a report
of the current status of the PDO_Firebird driver:

http://www.alberton.info/php_pdo_firebird_status.html

Comments are welcome.

HTH

Best regards,

--
Lorenzo Alberton
http://pear.php.net/user/quipo