On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, raja_s_patil <kpr.kolhapur@...> wrote:

>
>
> Thank you very much marius adrian popa,
> for very comprehensive help.
>
> You have suggested two ways I am confused which one use plz
> guide me which one is better since This is our First Web application
> so we are bit cautious, we are new to PHP, Apache etc.
> But we are Firebird on Linux for very long time even before it
> became a Open-sourced, earlier it was Interbase.
>

well pdo in php is very buggy , in fact i call it buggy as hell ,
http://www.alberton.info/php_pdo_firebird_status.html
http://forums.devshed.com/firebird-sql-development-61/firebird-and-php-pdo-functions-327659.html
I would recommend to use an stable wrapper around ibase/mysql functions
the one from cakephp is very well done you can find them in the cake
php source code
http://api.cakephp.org/class/dbo-firebird

also there is mdb2 with an good firebird/ibase driver
http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2
http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2_Driver_ibase/

also i have seen the adodb for php
http://adodb.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42718

so there are many options
also pdo seems to be now more stable in php 5.3
maybe after some zend pressure

> BTW just curious, if u r using PHP for web development
> how it can be used for producing reports at server end ?
> Like PDF's or how PHP can produce data exports to xls/ods/dbf ?
> Since our Application may need that functionality.

i guess you can inspire from ...dooh , phpmyadmin export functions or
maybe there are other good classes on phpclasses.org
http://svn.daif.net/filedetails.php?repname=camel&path=/script/phpmyadmin/libraries/export/ods.php&sc=1

>
> Thanks once again and best regards.
>
> Raja
>
>