Yesterday I pushed out an update to the PHP driver for Ingres into the PHP Extension Community Library (PECL). Whilst it’s been labelled as a minor update there have been 15 fixes/additions to the driver: – Update the unit tests to be more independent – Add support for the Ingres BOOLEAN type – Add ingres_fetch_assoc() [...]
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Introduction Getting web applications to connect to Ingres via Apache on UNIX/Linux can be quite fiddly. Here is a simple guide on the setup steps needed to allow the Ingres PHP, Python and Ruby drivers to work with Apache on RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora Linux. I’ve also published articles on doing the same [...]
For those of you who are interested in running PHP on OpenVMS with Ingres, I have published a pre-built binary to http://esd.ingres.com/product/drivers/PHP/HP_OpenVMS_Alpha/PHP_Driver. Installation instructions are available via http://bit.ly/InstallPHPIngresOpenVMS or in the README.VMS file contained within the download. The supplied PHP_INGRES.EXE has been built against Ingres 9.2.0 (axm.vms/143). If you want this extension for a different [...]
The last release of the PHP driver introduced a regression where by the “EXECUTE PROCEDURE” or “CALL” SQL statements would fail to execute (PECL bug 16688). The bug slipped through the net due to missing tests for database procedures. This oversight has now been resolved and the fix has been rolled into a new release, [...]
Just a quick note to say that PHP 5.3.0 has been released. DLLs for PHP 5.3.0 and Ingres are in the process of being built and should be up on http://esd.ingres.com within the next 24 hours.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Another month … (this is getting to be a habit): This update is implements several bits of new functionality as can seen from the CHANGELOG Add ingres.fetch_buffer_size to configure to the number of rows ingres_query() will fetch. Add ingres_charset() to fetch the installation II_CHARSETxx value Add ingres.describe ini setting to allow disabling of DESCRIBE INPUT [...]
Another month, another release. 2.0.2 is minor release fixing a couple of memory leaks and a SEGV. For your enjoyment, here is the complete CHANGELOG: – Fix corrupt Ingres MONEY to PHP DOUBLE conversions – Eliminate memory leak when ingres_free_result() is not called – Fix ingres_field_name() so it returns the correct column name – Fix [...]
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Along with the release of Christmas edition of the Ingres database workbench a new version of the Ingres PHP driver has been posted. 2.0.1 is major/minor release in as much as it is just a bunch of bug fixes but includes some important changes. From the CHANGELOG here are what I believe are the two [...]
Due to unforeseen circumstances the Getting Started with Ingres and PHP session I was supposed to present next Wednesday, 9th April 2008, has been brought forward one day to April 8th. The session will provide the basics for getting up and running with PHP and Ingres, covering the different platforms supported by both Ingres and [...]
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Its been a long time coming but I have finally released to cvs.php.net a major revision of the PECL Ingres code. So major that I have had to break backwards compatibility to implement the ability to have multiple active result-sets. Since I promised Andy Grimm I would write a piece on the new driver for [...]
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