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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Starting 5.3
From: milanb@panonnet.net (Milan Babuskov)

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> if nobody with C hacking skills is feeling sufficient pain over this, 
> the assumption is that the pool of users is too small or the pain is too 
> small.

Hi,

sorry for such late reply, but I just joined this group. I'm very 
interested in Firebird's future in PHP and I have C skills. However, to 
answer your assumption: the pain is too small.

We have a working 'interbase' extenstion that does all the job, and does 
it well. I see that it might get moved to PECL or it might not, however, 
it is going to be working for a long time. Current PHP+Firebird users 
just don't feel that they need PDO.

It could be used for new application development, but you'll hardly find 
a novice PHP user that is also willing to start hacking into PHP source 
code in parallel. Existing users are simply happy with pure ibase_ 
functions and ADOdb.

Now, I don't know about that 'lot of shiny new software' being written 
on PDO, and don't really see that Firebird users will care much. Most of 
that software is meant to run for ISPs, hosting, etc. services and 
Firebird is still not on par with MySQL in that (web hosting) 
environment. I use Firebird for everything, except dynamic online 
websites where MySQL is simply the best choice.

I hope that PDO stuff is not meant to completely replace mysql_, ibase_, 
etc. kind of functions in some distant future.

-- 
Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org