Signals shows that Firebird will be officially supported in the next version of Delphi. That’s what Anders Ohlsson says, as published in Marco Cantu blog:
He said that in the next version of Delphi they are looking forward to supporting (among other features) Firebird, touch-based UI (multi-platform touch engine), 64bit, and cloud computing.
Here is the tutorial
Firebird is supported by PHP, and Delphi for PHP can support it, but it can’t out of the box.
What is not well documented about a Delphi for PHP to Firebird connection, is the fact that names of libraries can overlap in WIndows.
In this first post, I’d put a foreword to clarify situation.
Here is the sample code and executables for Transferring Objects Over the Network.
Howto stream/transfer Objects in Delphi over the slow internet with an Firebird Db Backend
This is a small tip that can be used when you want to have separate processes to write to the same records in the database, without deadlocks.
The last few days I’ve spent optimizing an application written in Delphi 2009 that talks to a Firebird database using the standard TIBDatabase, TIBTransaction and TIBSQL components The application needs to do alot of reading/writing to the database, and was rather slow so I had to optimize it a little …The application is basically an Indy based Web-Server that receives simple GET parameters, does a thing or two in the DB and returns with the Success/Fail and a possible result from the DB.
The new article was published: Working with Firebird and Interbase from Delphi using IBPRovider and dbGo components.
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The TurboCASH Project is proud to present our Release Candidate 1 for TurboCASH 4.0.1.10 This is the culmination of a years preparation to move TurboCASH to a new platform based on the Firebird database.
This release has been prepared to ship to 81 countries. The biggest change we have made here is to open up the the code for the input of a greater number of contributors. The plugin architecture has been widened to include Delphi dlls.
The program sports a revised user interface and improves data accessability. Included now is the Reportman Database reporter. TurboCASH 4 can run from a singel user embedded on a memory stick right up to 50 Plus users.
