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animatow/cakephp-firebird-driver
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CakePHP 4 Driver for Firebird Database

2.1.4(4y ago)1654↓50%1MITPHPPHP >=8.0

Since Apr 5Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare

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CakePHP 4 Driver for Firebird Database
======================================

[](#cakephp-4-driver-for-firebird-database)

Currently provides data reading, inserting, deleting and updating.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using [composer](http://getcomposer.org).

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

```
composer require animatow/cakephp-firebird-driver

```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- CakePHP 4.0+
- an Firebird PHP extension
    - For Ubuntu 14.04 installing see [Ubuntu-PDO](docs/UbuntuPDO.md)
    - or FreeBSD 13 installing see [FreeBSD-PDO](docs/FreeBSDPDO.md)

Datasource configuration
------------------------

[](#datasource-configuration)

Here is an example datasource configuration:

```
'myfbconnection' => [
    'className' => 'Cake\Database\Connection',
    'driver' => 'CakephpFirebird\Driver\Firebird',
    'host' => '127.0.0.1',
    'port' => '3050',
    'username' => 'sysdba',
    'password' => 'masterkey',
    'database' => '/path-to-database/database.fdb',
    ]

```

Known Issues
------------

[](#known-issues)

- disable multiple records insert in the same query (e.g.: fixtures)
- disable auto increment fields on table creation
- review data types
- improve unit tests
- unimplemented add and dropContraints, enable and disableForeignFeySQL

Workaround
----------

[](#workaround)

- use cake bake lowercase table name

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 70% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~313 days

Recently: every ~360 days

Total

8

Last Release

1493d ago

Major Versions

1.0.3 → 2.0.02022-04-03

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0PHP >=5.4.16

1.0.3PHP >=5.6

2.0.0PHP >=8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4732521?v=4)[AnimaTow](/maintainers/AnimaTow)[@AnimaTow](https://github.com/AnimaTow)

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Top Contributors

[![mbamarante](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/409833?v=4)](https://github.com/mbamarante "mbamarante (7 commits)")[![arilia](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4802541?v=4)](https://github.com/arilia "arilia (3 commits)")

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Tags

databasecakephpdrivercakephp4firebird

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