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 [...]
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 [...]
This Wednesday I gave a session on the languages that can interface with Ingres. The content of my session was a high level overview with some simple examples thrown in for the non Embedded languages. Going into sufficient detail for all the languages we support in 35 minutes was not possible. There was a lot [...]
As a follow up to a prior post you can now register to attend the (free as in beer) UK IUA spring conference. I will be presenting a session on the different languages you can interface with Ingres, entitled - No Speaky the COBOL? - Ingres can speak your language. If you do not like [...]
I have released another update to the PHP Ingres interface - version 1.4.3 contains a single fix for a timing issue with multi-threaded webservers during the termination of a page request. I would suggest you get the latest code from pecl.php.net. Windows users can get the latest php_ingres.dll from http://pecl4win.php.net/ext.php/php_ingres.dll.
If you are running with Apache [...]
Today I have released version 1.4.2 of the Ingres PECL extension. Mainly another bug fix release however I have reduced the memory footprint of blob operations and made some improvements with respect to UNICODE handing. In addition I supply a sample configuration file, ingres.ini, that has all the php.ini settings. You can either copy [...]
The next phase of the ingres.com website redesign has been launched. http://community.ingres.com/ is the community side of the ingres.com website that replaces opensource.ingres.com. A brief look at the forums appears to show that the posts from the old site have been migrated across. Also it is worth noting that Ingres is using its own software [...]
Using a post to respond to an email is hardly an internet first but it is for me. I have been talking with Carlos, from Portugal, who is looking for a DLL of the latest Ingres PECL code for PHP 4.x. For those of you who would also like a copy - you can get [...]
I have recently been looking at a problem with Ingres and PHP on Ubuntu. In order to look at the bug I had to get Ingres installed. Normally a simple proposition with RPMs or the older install/ingbuild installation and set-up process. However with Ubuntu 6.10 it was not to be.
The following is based on the [...]
Yesterday I released version 1.4.1 of the PECL Ingres extension. Mainly a bug fix release fixing some interesting SEGV/GPFs with different web servers.
Added environment check during initialization
Fixed SEGV when closing a statement
Fixed spurious E_WARNING with empty LOB dataset
Fixed SEGV when ingres_close() is not called
Fixed auto commit cannot be enabled on shutdown
Fixed Array index start for [...]
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