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  • From: Andreas Schlögl <andreas.schloegl AT aon.at>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [freetds] Re: result of PHP odbc_field_type() call
  • Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:40:07 +0100

> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using FreeTDS version 0.61 mostly with PHP over UnixODBC version
> > 2.2.3
> to
> > connect to several MSSQL Servers version 7.0, using version 7.0 in
> > freetds.conf file.
> >
> > I'm happy with FreeTDS, but can see that some functions are not supported
it
> > looks like.
> > The PHP function odbc_field_type() doesn't return anything useful. Is
> > that
> > known? Can anybody confirm that this function is not supported yet or is
it
> > something else which might be wrong here?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andreas
>
> SQLColAttributes/SQL_COLUMN_TYPE_NAME was not implemented in 0.61.
>
> Try a recent snapshot (recommended using old platform or *BSD/Mac OS X)
> (http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/current/freetds-current.tgz)
> or RC1
> (http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/stable/freetds-0.62rc1.tar.gz).
>
> freddy77
>
> Thanks for your response. I tried 0.62dev20031227. The result: It doesn't
> work, too. Furthermore the PHP call odbc_field_len() returns a large
negative
> number now! This functions was working in version 0.61!
>
> Andreas

:( I think you encountered a problem fixed very recently:

Mon Dec 29 17:07:45 CET 2003 Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT angelfire.com>
* include/tds_sysdep_private.h src/tds/login.c:
* src/tds/read.c src/tds/write.c:
- fix problem with win32
* src/odbc/odbc.c: fix problem with big-endian machines
* src/odbc/odbc_util.c src/odbc/odbc_util.h:
- fix possible lose of precision and string shorting
* src/tds/iconv.c: warning
* win32/config.h: remove warning
* win32/dev-cpp/FreeTDS.dev win32/dev-cpp/Makefile.win:
* win32/msvc6/FreeTDS.dsp:
- updated

Try using my unofficial snapshot (see
http://freddy77.tripod.com/contrib.html)

freddy77

I tested your version 0.62rc2. It works the same as with version 0.61 (at
least for those two PHP calls we are discussing here):
* PHP call odbc_field_len() is fine
* PHP function odbc_field_type() is not working

I hope it helps for further development.
Regards,
--
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Andreas Schlögl
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