From bbdb23858fa9d0a9d86ea2058aefd2760709d353 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 17:33:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Changed intro text to reflect current status of InterBase/Firebird git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@159402 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1 --- reference/ibase/reference.xml | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/reference/ibase/reference.xml b/reference/ibase/reference.xml index b53bdd46da..2f6a06116a 100644 --- a/reference/ibase/reference.xml +++ b/reference/ibase/reference.xml @@ -1,21 +1,36 @@ - + - InterBase Functions - InterBase + Firebird/InterBase Functions + Firebird/InterBase
&reftitle.intro; - InterBase is a popular database put out by Borland/Inprise. More - information about InterBase is available at &url.ibase;. 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. + + + 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 &url.ibase;. + + + 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 &url.firebird;. - 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. This database uses a single quote (') character for escaping, a