Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Announcement :stable version of Firebird driver for the PHP Codeigniter Framework
Carlos wrote on firebird-php group : I’ve developed a stable version of a Firebird driver for the PHP Codeigniter Framework . Good feedback has been received from the Codeigniter community so far, and hope this could be useful for more developers working with PHP and Firebird.The sources are available at bitbucket here and any issues can be reported here
or at my blog here and for the English readers …
Thanx, live long and prosper…
Carlos García Trujillo
ps: seems that the driver is quite popular in such a small timeframe
I am happy that my driver for # firebird # codeigniter already are used by people from around the world in so little time:)
FirebirdDB driver for Codeigniter 2.0 is released Finally!
Here is the announcement on Codeigniter Forums
I have developed a FirebirdDB driver for Codeigniter 2.0
you can get it at BitBucket here
Code Igniter seems to be a cool PHP framework
CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks. In a critical take on PHP frameworks in general, PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke at frOSCon in August 2008, noting that he liked CodeIgniter “because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework”.
Do you use TIME and TIMESTAMP in your applications? The new IBProvider version will further simplify your work!
Have you ever lost microseconds when working with the type TIME?
Definitely, if you have ever tried to use them. In the previous versions of IBProvider, time was stored in OLE DB structure of DBTYPE_DBTIME type that does not support fractions of a second.
In the new IBProvider version, time data types have been improved. The new properties dbtime_rules and dbtimestamp_rules allow to set time storage not only in DBTIME/DBTIMESTAMP but also in WSTR and in the new type of MS SQL 2008 – DBTIME2 without losing milliseconds.
Please, read more and download new IBProvider Professional right now: Download Firebird OLE DB driver.
#Lua Firebird Driver : fbclient 0.5.0 is released
Cosmin Apreutesei wrote to to Lua, firebird-tools, LuaRocks mailing lists :
Firebird’s Lua binding v0.5.0 is out!
Quick changelog:
- improved automated testing suite:
- now testing against all 2.0-2.5 firebird and fbembed releases to date on win32 and linux32 (linux64 coming with the next version of alien)
- server binary bundles including start/stop scripts are now available for download making it trivial to setup a testing environment
- improved st:run()/st:fetch() handling based on statement type
- added support for SQL_NULL type (fb 2.5+)
- added at:sqlcode(), at:sqlstate(), at:sqlerrors(), at:errors(),at:full_status()
- added at:start_transaction()
- added st:row()
- bug fixing, refactoring and documentation updates
Rockspeck and zip package here: http://code.google.com/p/fbclient/source/browse/
The next version will include a reflection module for metadata export
and schema comparison and synchronization between two databases.
Feedback welcome!
Enjoy!
PS: Could someone please update the rockspec in the LR repo, thanks!
Development of the official FB ODBC driver
From Firebird Foundation blog:
We’re pleased to announce that Alexander Potapchenko has officially accepted the Foundation’s proposal to resume development of the ODBC driver. Work has begun on the completion of the previously stalled V2.0 “RC2” release.
#Delphi , #Lazarus : UIB 2.5 is optimized to fully exploit Firebird 2.5
There was no major release since a long time,but the project has always been maintained for 7 years now.
In honor of the new version of Firebird, I decided to release this new version of UIB in 2.5.
There have been many changes to support Unicode for Delphi 2009 to XE.
UIB is optimized to fully exploit Firebird 2.5.
http://www.progdigy.com/?p=149
ps: if you don’t know what UIB is , here is the description (archive.org link)
http://www.progdigy.com/?page_id=5
current page for UIB is https://github.com/hgourvest/uib
Firebird 2.5 is now in the #ArchLinux Aur repository
Except SuperClassic all of the packages are now in the official Aur repository
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=firebird
ps: Happy compiling 🙂
SupperClassic will be added soon to the AUR
firebird #ruby driver is building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2
Brent Rowland wrote on twitter
Got fb building cleanly and passing all tests under Ruby 1.9.1. Now for 1.9.2.
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27211068760
Got fb building with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.1 and 1.9.2. At least on Mac. Under 10.6. Testing Linux and Windows will have to wait for another day.
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27220817754
Here is the git repository for Firebird Ruby driver , also you can check the
commits log
ps: he is working on Firebird 2.5 support if you wonder what is new in the driver 🙂
RAD Studio XE in Devart VCL
From Irina Pisklyarova:
Devart announced the new versions of VCL Data Access Components with full support of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE.
The Devart VCL Data Access Components product line consists of the solutions that provide access from Delphi, Delphi for .NET, C++Builder, and Free Pascal chest, and offer wide coverage of the database servers’ feature sets. Devart Data Access Components provide the direct access to Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird and Yaffil, SQLite, DB2, Microsoft Access, Advantage Database Server, Adaptive Server Enterprise, and other databases.