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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
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<reference id="ref.ibase">
<title>InterBase Functions</title>
<titleabbrev>InterBase</titleabbrev>
<title>Firebird/InterBase Functions</title>
<titleabbrev>Firebird/InterBase</titleabbrev>
<partintro>
<section id="ibase.intro">
&reftitle.intro;
<para>
InterBase is a popular database put out by Borland/Inprise. More
information about InterBase is available at <ulink
url="&url.ibase;">&url.ibase;</ulink>. Oh, by the way, InterBase
just joined the open source movement!
Firebird/InterBase is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features
that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird/InterBase
offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language
support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production
systems, under a variety of names since 1981.
</para>
<para>
InterBase is the name of the closed-source variant of this RDBMS that
was developed by Borland/Inprise. More information about InterBase is
available at <ulink>&url.ibase;</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers,
technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform
relational database management system based on the source code released by
Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase
Public License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000. More information about Firebird is
available at <ulink>&url.firebird;</ulink>.
</para>
<note>
<para>
Full support for InterBase 6 was added in PHP 4.0.
This extension supports InterBase versions 5 and up and all versions of Firebird.
Support for InterBase version 5.x will be dropped in PHP 5.
</para>
<para>
This database uses a single quote (') character for escaping, a