[PHP-DB] how to update a text BLOB in ODBC?

2002-11-19 Thread Jeff Stern
hi, i am having the devil of a time with this. have been researching it 
for 3 weeks. have posted to php.faqts.com (no answer), looked a million 
times on php.net, and www.borland.com/interbase, written people email 
(no response!) and even tried to get the people at easysoft to answer 
(they are working on it)..

but it's been 3 weeks now and i cannot seem to get this question 
answered, and our project is waiting..

the question simply is: how to write a BLOB (sub-typwith ODBC in PHP?

fyi, it shouldn't make a difference, but i am using interbase 6.0 as the 
back end, and the blob is SUB-TYPE 1 (text).

*reading* the blob is trivial with php Unified ODBC. I just use a normal 
SQL select statement:

==
$sql = select note from note_tbl where pkey = '45';

# get result 

$result = @odbc_exec($conn, $sql);

# assign values 

if ( @odbc_fetch_into($result, $row)) {
  $note = $row[0];
}
==

(where notes is the BLOB field). pretty simple.

however, when i try to *write* it back:
==
$sql = insert into note_tbl
(note) values ('${note}')
where pkey = '45';

$result = odbc_exec($conn, $sql);
==

i get an error message:

==
Invalid modify request. Conversion error from string BLOB
==

.. so apparently i cannot simply write the string back out to the BLOB.
(tho' IMHO if i can read in a SUB-TYPE 1 (text) BLOB that easily, then i 
should be able to write it back out that easily).

apparently this is not just at the PHP Unified ODBC level.. if i run 
easysoft's isql program at the command prompt and try to run the same 
commands, while i don't get as specific an error message, it does return 
an error:

==
SQL update notes_tbl set note = 'hello there' where pkey = '16784'
[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLExecute
SQL _
==

does anyone have some example code for how to do this (in PHP)?

i'd be most grateful..


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Re: [PHP-DB] how to update a text BLOB in ODBC?

2002-11-19 Thread Jeff Stern
thanks for the correction, miles and martin.. just an email typo.

i still have the problem though. :(

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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Miles Thompson wrote:

 Jeff,

 Check your SQL. Shouldn't
 $sql = insert into note_tbl
 (note) values ('${note}')
 where pkey = '45';

 be UPDATE  where pkey = '45' ?


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