Firebird drivers for CI 1.7

[eluser]HDuqueC[/eluser]
Hi,

I need my application to work against a Firebird 1.5 database. I searched CI Forum and found the Jeffrey Bradley drivers for Firebird/Interbase, but unfortunately this driver wroks olny with CI v.1.5 (with this version it works fine).

Is there or is someone working in updating the Firebird/Interbase driver for CI 1.7?
Should be the best approach to implement a ODBC connection?

Thank you for your comments.

Nando.

[eluser]JJB[/eluser]
Hi,
I am going to try to re-create the Firebird drivers this weekend. I will let you know when I get a working version. My goal is to have it work with CodeIgniter 1.7.1, Firebird 2.1.1, and PHP 5.2. I will post back when I get something working. I do not have Firebird 1.5 installed anywhere here, I will try to not make use of anything that is particular to 2.1

Jeff Bradley

[eluser]Max-B[/eluser]
Thank you guy!

It was very kind. I need it also (2.1 better then 1.5....)

Max

[eluser]rasaliad[/eluser]
[quote author="JJB" date="1240548430"]Hi,
I am going to try to re-create the Firebird drivers this weekend...
Jeff Bradley[/quote]

Well Jeff, I hope you get a working driver for FireBird, i had try to do my best but i can not do it, may be because I'm very, very new in PHP. I have not start working with CI because i can not connect to FireBird. Good luck Jeff, and thanks in advanced

[eluser]HDuqueC[/eluser]
Jeffrey

Thank you for posting with good news. Unfortunately I'm quite new in PHP but I'll be very glad to help you testing the new drivers. I know Firebird 2.1 super seeds 1.5 but my challenge is with 1.5.

I wish that knowledge be with you.

Nando

[eluser]t'mo[/eluser]
I've never heard of Firebird before. However, is it big enough and important enough to suggest to the EllisLab teams that they add Firebird drivers to the core?

[eluser]HDuqueC[/eluser]
t'mo:

Hi. Firebird was borned from Borland's Interbase 6.0. It is a very strong RDBMS engine, easy administration, and what I like most, runs as well in Windows and Linux. In Latin America mostly in Brazil there are so many applications running with Firebird.

Please take a look at http://www.firebirdnews.org/docs/fb2min.html

Nando

[eluser]JJB[/eluser]
Firebird has been around (by different names) since the mid 80's (see http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=...=beginning for more info). I have personally used it since the late 90's. It has been used to replace Oracle in some shops and there is a branch from Firebird (Fyracle - http://www.janus-software.com/fb_fyracle.html) that claims to be able to replace an Oracle DB including Stored Procs and Triggers with minimal to no changes in code. I do not know why it doesn't get more press than Postgre and MySQL.

[eluser]rasaliad[/eluser]
[quote author="JJB" date="1240854030"].... I do not know why it doesn't get more press than Postgre and MySQL.[/quote]

Hi,

Today I read an article (Why so few developers are using Firebird SQL? (not so true…) http://www.firebirdnews.org/ ) among others...

[eluser]t'mo[/eluser]
Discussion of said article: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comm...ebird_sql/