Progress databases prefer the odbc_prepare, odbc_execute sequence over the
odbc_exec functions ( I don't know why )
> -----Original Message-----
> From: indrek siitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Problems with PHP / Progress / ODBC
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to write a PHP app that accesses a Progress database.
>
> version info:
> - Windows 2000 Pro + Apache 1.3.14
> - PHP 4.0.4pl1 (4.0.5 just wouldn't work on my machine)
> - Progress 8.3.B
> - Merant Progress ODBC drivers v 3.50
>
> the ODBC drivers seem to be fine - I made a MS Access database
> and linked a bunch of Progress tables in there with Get External
> Data / Link tables. I can view/query them just fine.
>
> now, I tried a simple PHP app:
>
> --- 8< ---
>
> <?
> $DBH=odbc_connect("mgauto","","","");
> $sth=odbc_exec($DBH,"SELECT Trkoodi,Trnimi FROM Turyhma");
> while(odbc_fetch_row($sth))
> {
> echo "<li> ".odbc_result($sth,"Trkoodi")." -
> ".odbc_result($sth,"Trnimi");
> }
> odbc_close($DBH);
> ?>
>
> --- 8< ---
>
> The odbc_exec() query seems to be fine (when i do "echo $sth" after
> the exec, i get "Resource id #2"). but the odbc_fetch_row() really
> acts weird - it always returns true so it ends up in endless loop.
> the odbc_result() calls return empty strings.
>
> I've tried the odbc_connect() with all the possible cursor types,
> doesn't help.
>
> I've tried something like that:
>
> --- 8< ---
>
> $i=1;
> while(1)
> {
> if (!odbc_fetch_row($sth,$i)) break;
> echo "<li> ".odbc_result($sth,"Trkoodi")." -
> ".odbc_result($sth,"Trnimi");
> $i++;
> }
>
> --- 8< ---
>
> didn't work either. :(
>
>
> as a really stoopid thing, I tried creating an ODBC source for the
> Access database I created before (with the Progress tables linked
> in via ODBC). now I connected to the Access database via ODBC in
> PHP and tried to query the Progress tables linked into the Access.
> everything worked fine - I could access all the information in
> Progress.
>
>
> any other ideas?
>
>
> Rgds,
> Tfr
>
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