FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: C.Lee Taylor
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:58 AM
> 
>       Now the problem I'm having is that on Fedora Core 3,
>       PHP does not seem to return the effected rows of a
> select statement.
...
>       I have searched the internet, to look into this, and
>       on the php site, I see that they state that RowCount
> in ODBC, is meant to be effected rows on insert, delete and
> update ... But as I have stated, this same code works on
> Windows ...
...
> P.S. isql and tsql seem to return the needed data

If you're using ODBC from PHP, the controlling standard is the ODBC
standard.  It is documented as part of Microsoft's MDAC SDK.  That
determines what PHP *can* do (within the implemented capabilities of the
driver).  What PHP does do is, of course, up to PHP.  

Note the rows affected (not "effected") figure is not available until
after the last row has been retrieved from the server.  The server
itself does not know the rowcount of a SELECT statement before
delivering the results to the client.  

That said, I'm not sure ODBC is your best choice.  I think the technical
favorite for PHP these days is the mssql extension.  It doesn't use ODBC
(it uses db-lib) and might work better.  

HTH.

--jkl


-----------------------------------------
The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and
confidential information and is intended only for the use of the person(s) 
named
above. If you are not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent 
responsible
for delivering this message to the intended recipient, any review, 
dissemination,
distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If 
you are
not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply 
e-mail
and destroy all copies of the original message. Please note that we do not 
accept
account orders and/or instructions by e-mail, and therefore will not be 
responsible
for carrying out such orders and/or instructions.  If you, as the intended 
recipient
of this message, the purpose of which is to inform and update our clients, 
prospects
and consultants of developments relating to our services and products, would 
not
like to receive further e-mail correspondence from the sender, please "reply" 
to the
sender indicating your wishes.  In the U.S.: 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New 
York,
NY 10105.