Subject Re: [firebird-php] Re: php4-interbase and select with no result
Author Lester Caine
Darren Thompson wrote:
> > Running ADOdb I don't seem to run into too many problems - which ever
> > database is targeted. Interbase notes say switch magic_quotes_sybase =
> > on, but I find I'm better with it off.
> yeah i keep magic qoutes off too.
>
> ADOdb is very cool we are really forced to use it cause hosting providers
> dont want to install firebird on there servers mainly MySQL have you had
> many problems when writing code for a interbase db using ADOdb and
> connecting to a diffrent db like Postgres and MySQL with the same database
> structure?

Very few. Silly things like LOWER, which just needs a UDF loading, but
I've been extending TikiPro from PostgreSQL and MySQL to Firebird, so in
many cases it's just trimming key field lengths, and switching from 250
VARCHAR user names everywhere to integer user ID's. MySQL does create
some appalling schemes ;)

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