> From: David J N Begley [mailto:d.begley@...]

Hi,

> > Just started to play with PHP4 with new IB6 support, looks
> promising so far.
> > There is even some reasonable help/examples...
> > http://www.php.net/manual/ref.ibase.php
>
> Unless the online manual has lagged behind the implementation,
> the InterBase
> API for PHP is still somewhat lacking (something that needs moderately
> important attention if InterBase is to "compete" with other
> database products as a backend for PHP).

Well the online line manual is certainly better than PHP3's, I am sure the
support will improve when people realise that Interbase is ideally suited to
this type of 'internet' solution.

> Do you know if the released version of PHP 4 has fixed the
> problem of random crashes on SMP machines or not?
> PHP 3.0.x with InterBase support runs rock
> solid, but the 4.0RC series was so unstable as to be unusable.

I don't know, I am fairly new to PHP (trying to show off to my mySQL mates!)
and I don't run SMP hardware (yet). So far the only 'crashes' I have had
have been of my own making :-)

Cheers

Phil Shrimpton
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