php-general Digest 21 Sep 2012 07:23:44 -0000 Issue 7973
Topics (messages 319166 through 319167):
Warning at PDO:Firebird driver manual page removed.
319166 by: Davi Marcondes Moreira
319167 by: Lester Caine
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Hi, good evening!
I'm working with an database from and older application (Firebird 1.5) and
I need some help to implement the PDO:Firebird in our projects at work. If
anybody could give me some light in this case, I would be very happy to
implement PDO with Firebird from now on.
Until last month, the manual page about PDO:Firebird driver (
http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-firebird.php) had a Warning message (
http://twitpic.com/awrqdx/full , 'Aviso' in portuguese) alerting about the
risks of using this extension: "Warning: This module is EXPERIMENTAL. The
behaviour of this extension - including function names and any other
documentation about this extension - can change without advice in future
versions of PHP. This extension should be used at your own risk." and that
was the reason I didn't implemented this extension before, I didn't felt
safe enough to use it in our projects. But at the beggining of september
(nearly day 7) the warning message was removed (
http://twitpic.com/awrw8k/full) and no comments were posted on the page,
leaving unexplained the reasons of this update.
I've got help from Rafael Dohms on twitter which sent links (
http://www.gn0s1s.nl/?p=108 and http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=6619)
explaining that between may and december 2011 some members of gn0s1s.nl and
firebirdnews.org had plans to fix bugs to set this extension safe for
general use, but I didn't got any response that proved with 100% that this
extension is now secure for project needs.
The question is: why the warning message was removed, and now this
extension is safe for use, without risks of being discontinued or
depreciated?
Sincerely,
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Davi Marcondes Moreira
+ Info: http://about.me/davi.m.moreira
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Davi Marcondes Moreira wrote:
The question is: why the warning message was removed, and now this
extension is safe for use, without risks of being discontinued or
depreciated?
Davi
The current version of the extension is stable and a number of the initial bugs
have been cleared up. If you use it you will find that it does work fine, but
most PHP/Firebird users - like myself - stay with the php_interbase driver on
it's own simply because some function are not available via the PDO driver. That
only replaces the 'data' interface and does not address some of the control
stuff. This is the case with many of the PDO drivers since it is not easy to
provide a 'compatible' version of this across all database engines.
I've still got FB1.5 on a number of sites mainly because of legacy apps that can
no longer be recompiled, but PHP provides an additional interface to fill the gaps.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-php/ is the home for a more in depth
discussion and assistance :)
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