Support for FirebirdSQL

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8/13/2006 1:17:17 PM

Gareth

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Support for FirebirdSQL

I have had a quick look at the dbPortal code for the database connection, not too difficult to implement for firebird.
I will not mind maintaining the firebird code as long as I use mojoportal, been playing around a bit today, looks very nice and very solid.
I think it may take me a month or 2 to get a working version for 1.0.4, then I will start on the 2.x release.

I will try to reinstall my ubuntu machine and document the installation, will send it to you when complete.

Thanks for the quick response in the success stories forum.
Gareth

8/13/2006 3:49:17 PM

Joe Audette

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Excellent Gareth! I'm very happy to have your help. This will be very exciting to support Firebird, and help with documentation is always most welcome.

Since you are working on Ubuntu and using the 1.x branch you have a nice fixed target for the initial implementation. Keep in mind that later, probably around Q1 2007 when mono fully supports 2.0 .NET there will be additional methods to get caught up due to all the new things the 2.x version of mojoPortal.

I am very much looking forward to that day when we get back to one version of mojoPortal that works on windows or linux

Welcome aboard!

Joe

4/9/2007 11:31:12 AM

Zachary Richmond

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How is this coming? I have read over the using Firebird Data Layer page, but there doesn't seem to be any news on this lately. Is this still planned for a 1.x release? Or has work begun on the 2.x branch since full Mono support is so close? If I can I'd like to help (testing, etc) but my time is of course like all of us limited. I currently have a 1.0.4 installation running on postgresql, hosted at grokthis, and I have created a simple custom module. My main interest in the firebird data layer ultimately coming down to wanting to focus on one RDMS and firebird is my choice. In my current situation I won't be able to do much to contribute, but that will hopefully change soon. Anyhow thanks for all the excellent work.

Zak

4/9/2007 11:56:30 AM

Joe Audette

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Hi Zak,

Gareth, had it mostly implemented in the 1.x version then he seemed to lose time or interest in it. Its been a long time since I've heard anything from him.
You can get the source code from mojoportal svn/trunk and try testing it out if you like and maybe you can consider taking over or continuing with development.

It has not been ported to the 2.x branch at all yet and would be a fairly good amount of work to do that I imagine.

I have no time to implement or maintain this data layer myself so unless a maintainer emerges who has the commitment to keep it maintained the project will remain stagnant. I do hope someone will take this on but I understand it is very hard for people to commit their free time to open source development. Often people start out with a lot of enthusiasm then life finds other things that occupy their time and they lose interest.

Joe

4/9/2007 12:18:37 PM

Zachary Richmond

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Well, likely my involvement would ramp up rather than down, since I would be using mojoportal for 2 or more additional web sites as well as updating the current 1.0.4 one. The two additional ones would be businesses (one of them I be directly involved in), so in the next few months I could see this being part of my normal day time job. In the meantime, I will have to begin poking around.

Zak

4/9/2007 12:39:06 PM

Joe Audette

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Sounds good Zak,

Once you get into it if you have questions I can give you Gareth's email address. Maybe your interest will get his interest fired up again.

btw, you keep ending your posts with invalid markup like <hints... and it keeps causing the error message you see in your posts.

We use NeatHtml to trap invalid markup and show an error. This is to prevent cross site scripting security problems. The problem is that the filters can't tell the difference between harmful invalid markup and non-harmful invalid markup so if there is any invalid markup the content gets html encoded to prevent cross site scripting and the error message is displayed. <hints is not a valid element in xhtml.

Joe

4/9/2007 1:06:12 PM

Zachary Richmond

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What is odd is I am not putting that element in there. I am only typing directly in the editor.

4/9/2007 1:08:22 PM

Zachary Richmond

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Test.

4/9/2007 1:13:26 PM

Zachary Richmond

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Sorry for polluting the thread. I just thought that the problem might have been one of my firefox add-ons. It likely is but I don't have any more time at the moment to try anything else.

4/12/2007 12:46:18 PM

Gareth

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Re: Support for FirebirdSQL

Hello all,

Just to let you know, I have been doing a bit of work on the firebird datalayer, porting it to the 2.0 release.
Yes, there are alot of changes from 1.0 :)

I have created a generic database access layer which works with postgres, oracle and firebird so far.
My company asked me to create an oracle datalayer and I decided to rather create a generic wrapper around types of databases.
This has taken alot of time and I am still testing it, working nicely though :)

Anyway Zak, if you want to take a look at the 2.0 version so far ask Joe for my email address.

Gareth

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