NAME

DBD::IB - InterBase driver for the Perl5 DataBase Interface

SYNOPSIS

  use DBI;
  
  $dbpath = '/usr/interbase/data/perl_example.gdb';
  $dbh = DBI->connect(DBI:IB:database=$dbpath) or die "DBI::errstr";
  $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from SIMPLE") or die $dbh->errstr;
  $sth->execute;
  while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array))
  {
    print @row, "\n";
  }
  $dbh->commit;
  $dbh->disconnect;  

For more examples, see eg/ directory.

DESCRIPTION

Currently this is a wrapper DBD module on top of IBPerl, written in pure perl. For this is an pre-alpha code, so use with caution!

PREREQUISITE

• InterBase client

• IBPerl, by Bill Karwin

Both are available at http://www.interbase.com, for more information, read the documentation of IBPerl.

WARNING

Not fully tested.

HISTORY

• July 23, 1999

  Pre-alpha code. An almost complete rewrite of DBI::IB in pure perl. Problems encountered during handles destruction phase.

• July 22, 1999

  DBI::IB, a DBI emulation layer for IBPerl is publicly announced.

TODO

Independent implementation from IBPerl.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Bill Karwin - author of IBPerl, Tim Bunce - author of DBI.

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 1999 Edwin Pratomo <ed.pratomo@computer.org>.

All rights reserved. This is a free code, available as-is; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

DBI(3), IBPerl(1).