Delphi for PHP's VCL for PHP supports Firebird!

According to David I , Delphi for PHP will officialy support Firebird:

"Components for database access include: Database, Table, Query, and Stored Procedure. CodeGear's InterBase (6, 6.5, 7.x and 2007) is directly supported using InterBase Express components that talk directly to the InterBase API for high performance database applications. Beyond InterBase, the following databases and database access mechanisms will also supported: ADO, ODBC and OLEDB providers, Access, FoxPro, FrontBase, FireBird, DB2, Informix (7.x), SQL Server (7 and 2000), MySQL, Oracle (8 and 9), PostGreSQL (6.x 7 and 8), SAPdb, SQLite, SQL Anywhere, and Sybase."

It will also be Open Source:

"VCL for PHP is built on several popular open source frameworks and libraries and will itself be open source."

Great news!