FreeTDS Development Group

[Thomas Gagné <tgagne AT wideopenwest.com>]

Alex Kiesel wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:06, Thomas Gagné wrote:
>  
>
> > 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?
> >    
>
> Hi,
>
> PHP does not have a builtin type for dates, so it returns any DATETIME
> field as a string.
>
> Decimal types are returned as integers or floats, whatever type or range
> was returned by the database.
>
> - Alex

So in essence, it's a bad choice for programming when currency and dates 
are involved?

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.tom