Roberto Carlos wrote:

> For me, as beginner on PHP, it feels like ibase represents the past and tends to be discontinued. And PDO would represent the future.
> I usually read complains about both compared with drivers for other RDBMS.
> Drupal and Wordpress have initiatives to use Firebird (via PDO), but works are slow due to difficults on using PDO_Firebird driver. Sometimes it does not behave as expectaded.

The PDO driver has had all of the bugs fixed, the problem comes with the fact
that PDO has no understanding of the differences in SQL, and since MySQL has
some strange interpretations on the SQL standard, some queries can be difficult
to convert.
Even power users of MySQL still prefer the generic drivers over PDO and the same
is true for most other drivers.

> Usually the examples for PHP are on MySQL, sometimes on PostgreSQL and rarely on Firebird.
> Convert MySQL driver examples to ibase is very difficult for beginners because it demands extra knowledge both on Firebird and PHP (json/xml/jquery/ajax)...
> It is also difficult to find articles (or free/paid courses) on PHP/Firebird.

> For a recent example, search Robert Carlos's post onhttp://www.codeproject.com/Articles/277576/AJAX-based-CRUD-tables-using-ASP-NET-MVC-3-and-jTa

While I use a little ajax stuff I'm mainly working with jquery, but I would like
to add some more functionality to the bitweaver packages. piwik uses a few more
'tricks' and is running nicely on Firebird - at least my port of it is ;)

> Do you have any information on how ibase and PDO for Firebird are maintained? Both are actively maintained?

marius has been fine tuning both, but there is no pressing bugs or enhancements
for ibase, and PDO simply never developed from the original subset of
functionality :(

> Is there a better solution?

ibase works fine ...

> Do you know blogs with good articles on PHP/Firebird?

http://fbwiki.lsces.org.uk/ used to be hosted on firebirdsql.org some of the
content has been improved on my own home site such as
http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/index.php?page=Building+a+current+FLAP+stack, but we DO
need some more up to date stuff. It's been some years since I did papers on this
at the PHP confernces :(

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