u.masotti wrote:

> --- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...> wrote:
>> Pavel Cisar wrote:
>>> .... We're stuck with openSUSE 10.0 for time being, which
>>> has only PHP 4.4.0.
>> It's a good version, 5.x series still has bugs and I patch sources
>> manually before compiling.
>
> I'm not able to figure out what are you referring to: PHP 5.* globally or PHP ibase/firebird 5.* interface sources?

Interbase driver.

> Can you share which are the most important ones?

Most important and critical are subtle errors in handling of numeric and
decimal data. For example, Firebird can return a number: 1204.345, but
driver shows it as: 12043.45.

You can run this test script to see whether your version is affected:

http://fbexport.sourceforge.net/ibtest.php.txt


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