abies Sat May 22 13:33:05 2004 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/ibase reference.xml
Log:
Changed intro text to reflect current status of InterBase/Firebird
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/reference/ibase/reference.xml?r1=1.8&r2=1.9&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/ibase/reference.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/ibase/reference.xml:1.8
phpdoc/en/reference/ibase/reference.xml:1.9
--- phpdoc/en/reference/ibase/reference.xml:1.8 Tue Feb 24 03:45:49 2004
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/ibase/reference.xml Sat May 22 13:33:05 2004
@@ -1,21 +1,36 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
<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
