FreeTDS Development Group

[Thomas Gagné <tgagne AT wideopenwest.com>]

If you're at all familiar with how PHP handles Sybase, do you have any 
suggestions on how to get PHP to handle sybase DATE and NUMERIC formats? 
Does PHP have date and decimal types?

Alex Kiesel wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 23:02, Lowden, James K wrote:
>  
>
> > > From: Alex Kiesel [mailto:alex.kiesel AT document-root.de]
> > > Sent: June 25, 2003 3:37 PM
> > >
> > > I am currently experiencing some trouble with FreeTDS. Since 
> > > between the
> > > two latest releases (0.60 vs. 0.61.*) the handling of stored 
> > > procedures seems to be borked.
> > >      
> > Alex, 
> >
> > Is it feasible for you to use a recent snapshot?  We noticed some problems
> > with stored procedures that don't return a result set; those have been fixed
> > since 0.61.1.    
> >    
>
> Again, after testing with PHP5 (out of todays CVS), and todays
> freetds-current (0.61.dev.20030626) and looking a little bit into PHP
> Sybase handling code, I see the following when selecting an empty
> resultset:
>
> * ct_results is called, it gives restype 4047 (TDS_CMD_SUCCEED)
>  fetching of any data except for
>  ct_res_info(sybase_ptr->cmd, CS_ROW_COUNT, &row_count, ...)
>  therefore does not take place. A CS_ROW_RESULT would be necessary even
>  if it is an empty resultset.
>
> * because PHP5 doesn't currently (and so in the past) support multiple
>  resultsets, it breaks the whole loop and enters the next one which
>  just expects an CS_END_DATA. In case of any other type, ct_cancel()
>  will be called:
>  ct_cancel(NULL, sybase_ptr->cmd, CS_CANCEL_CURRENT)
>
> * this happens three times, each time the restype of the result was 4040
>  (CS_ROW_RESULT).
>
> Something has changed in the handling of an empty resultset, so in case
> of an empty resultset a CS_CMD_SUCCESS, and when receiving 1+ rows
> CS_ROW_RESULT is returned.
>
>
>  
>
> > I will try to reproduce your sqsh script with our current CVS version.  
> >    
>
> Btw: this was a PHP script...
>
> Greets,
> Alex
>
>
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.tom