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17<h2>ADOdb Library for PHP</h2>
18<p>v4.991 16 Oct 2008 (c) 2000-2008 John Lim (jlim#natsoft.com)</p>
19<p><font size="1">This software is dual licensed using BSD-Style and LGPL. This
20  means you can use it in compiled proprietary and commercial products.</font></p>
21 
22
23    <p>Useful ADOdb links:  <a href="http://adodb.sourceforge.net/#download">Download</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://adodb.sourceforge.net/#docs">Other Docs</a>
24
25</p><p><a href="#intro"><b>Introduction</b></a><b><br>
26    <a href="#features">Unique Features</a><br>
27    <a href="#users">How People are using ADOdb</a><br>
28    <a href="#bugs">Feature Requests and Bug Reports</a><br>
29    </b><b><a href="#install">Installation</a><br>
30    <a href="#mininstall">Minimum Install</a><br>
31    <a href="#coding">Initializing Code and Connectioning to Databases</a><br>
32    </b><font size="2"> &nbsp; <a href="#dsnsupport">Data Source Name (DSN) Support</a></font>  &nbsp;  <a href="#connect_ex">Connection Examples</a> <br>
33    <b><a href="#speed">High Speed ADOdb - tuning tips</a></b><br>
34    <b><a href="#hack">Hacking and Modifying ADOdb Safely</a><br>
35    <a href="#php5">PHP5 Features</a></b><br>
36    <font size="2"><a href="#php5iterators">foreach iterators</a> <a href="#php5exceptions">exceptions</a></font><br>
37    <b> <a href="#drivers">Supported Databases</a></b><br>
38    <b> <a href="#quickstart">Tutorials</a></b><br>
39    <a href="#ex1">Example 1: Select</a><br>
40    <a href="#ex2">Example 2: Advanced Select</a><br>
41    <a href="#ex3">Example 3: Insert</a><br>
42    <a href="#ex4">Example 4: Debugging</a> &nbsp;<a href="#exrs2html">rs2html
43    example</a><br>
44    <a href="#ex5">Example 5: MySQL and Menus</a><br>
45    <a href="#ex6">Example 6: Connecting to Multiple Databases at once</a> <br>
46    <a href="#ex7">Example 7: Generating Update and Insert SQL</a> <br>
47    <a href="#ex8">Example 8: Implementing Scrolling with Next and Previous</a><br>
48    <a href="#ex9">Example 9: Exporting in CSV or Tab-Delimited Format</a> <br>
49    <a href="#ex10">Example 10: Custom filters</a><br>
50    <a href="#ex11">Example 11: Smart Transactions</a><br>
51    <br>
52    <b> <a href="#errorhandling">Using Custom Error Handlers and PEAR_Error</a><br>
53    <a href="#DSN">Data Source Names</a><br>
54    <a href="#caching">Caching</a></b><br>
55    &nbsp; &nbsp;  <a href="#memcache">MemCache</a><br>
56    &nbsp; &nbsp;  <a href="#cacheapi">Caching API</a><br>
57    <b><a href="#pivot">Pivot Tables</a></b>
58</p><p><a href="#ref"><b>REFERENCE</b></a>
59</p><p> <font size="2">Variables: <a href="#adodb_countrecs">$ADODB_COUNTRECS</a>
60<a href="#adodb_ansi_padding_off">$ADODB_ANSI_PADDING_OFF</a>
61  <a href="#adodb_cache_dir">$ADODB_CACHE_DIR</a> <br>
62  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  <a href="#force_type">$ADODB_FORCE_TYPE</a>
63  <a href="#adodb_fetch_mode">$ADODB_FETCH_MODE</a>
64  <a href="#adodb_lang">$ADODB_LANG</a> <a href=#adodb_auto_quote>ADODB_QUOTE_FIELDNAMES</a> <br>
65  Constants: </font><font size="2"><a href="#adodb_assoc_case">ADODB_ASSOC_CASE</a>
66  </font><br>
67  <a href="#ADOConnection"><b> ADOConnection</b></a><br>
68  <font size="2">Connections: <a href="#connect">Connect</a> <a href="#pconnect">PConnect</a>
69  <a href="#nconnect">NConnect</a> <a href="#isconnected">IsConnected</a><br>
70  Executing SQL: <a href="#execute">Execute</a> <a href="#cacheexecute"><i>CacheExecute</i></a>
71  <a href="#selectlimit">SelectLimit</a> <a href="#cacheSelectLimit"><i>CacheSelectLimit</i></a>
72  <a href="#param">Param</a> <a href="#prepare">Prepare</a> <a href="#preparesp">PrepareSP</a>
73  <a href="#inparameter">InParameter</a> <a href="#outparameter">OutParameter</a> <a href="#autoexecute">AutoExecute</a>
74  <br>
75  &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#getone">GetOne</a>
76  <a href="#cachegetone"><i>CacheGetOne</i></a> <a href="#getrow">GetRow</a> <a href="#cachegetrow"><i>CacheGetRow</i></a>
77  <a href="#getall">GetAll</a> <a href="#cachegetall"><i>CacheGetAll</i></a> <a href="#getcol">GetCol</a>
78  <a href="#cachegetcol"><i>CacheGetCol</i></a> <a href="#getassoc1">GetAssoc</a> <a href="#cachegetassoc"><i>CacheGetAssoc</i></a> <a href="#replace">Replace</a>
79  <br>
80  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#executecursor">ExecuteCursor</a>
81  (oci8 only)<br>
82  Generates SQL strings: <a href="#getupdatesql">GetUpdateSQL</a> <a href="#getinsertsql">GetInsertSQL</a>
83  <a href="#concat">Concat</a> <a href="#ifnull">IfNull</a> <a href="#length">length</a> <a href="#random">random</a> <a href="#substr">substr</a>
84  <a href="#qstr">qstr</a> <a href="#param">Param</a>  <a href="#OffsetDate">OffsetDate</a> <a href="#sqldate">SQLDate</a>
85  <a href="#dbdate">DBDate</a>  <a href="#dbtimestamp">DBTimeStamp</a>
86  <a href="#binddate">BindDate</a>  <a href="#bindtimestamp">BindTimeStamp</a>
87  <br>
88  Blobs: <a href="#updateblob">UpdateBlob</a> <a href="#updateclob">UpdateClob</a>
89  <a href="#updateblobfile">UpdateBlobFile</a> <a href="#blobencode">BlobEncode</a>
90  <a href="#blobdecode">BlobDecode</a><br>
91  Paging/Scrolling: <a href="#pageexecute">PageExecute</a> <a href="#cachepageexecute">CachePageExecute</a><br>
92  Cleanup: <a href="#cacheflush">CacheFlush</a> <a href="#Close">Close</a><br>
93  Transactions: <a href="#starttrans">StartTrans</a> <a href="#completetrans">CompleteTrans</a>
94  <a href="#failtrans">FailTrans</a> <a href="#hasfailedtrans">HasFailedTrans</a>
95  <a href="#begintrans">BeginTrans</a> <a href="#committrans">CommitTrans</a>
96  <a href="#rollbacktrans">RollbackTrans</a> <a href=#SetTransactionMode>SetTransactionMode</a><br>
97  Fetching Data: </font> <font size="2"><a href="#setfetchmode">SetFetchMode</a><br>
98  Strings: <a href="#concat">concat</a> <a href="#length">length</a>  <a href="#qstr">qstr</a> <a href="#quote">quote</a> <a href="#substr">substr</a><br>
99  Dates: <a href="#dbdate">DBDate</a> <a href="#dbtimestamp">DBTimeStamp</a> <a href="#unixdate">UnixDate</a>
100  <a href="#binddate">BindDate</a>  <a href="#bindtimestamp">BindTimeStamp</a>
101  <a href="#unixtimestamp">UnixTimeStamp</a> <a href="#OffsetDate">OffsetDate</a>
102  <a href="#SQLDate">SQLDate</a> <br>
103  Row Management: <a href="#affected_rows">Affected_Rows</a> <a href="#inserted_id">Insert_ID</a>  <a href="#rowlock">RowLock</a>
104  <a href="#genid">GenID</a> <a href="#createseq">CreateSequence</a> <a href="#dropseq">DropSequence</a>
105  <br>
106  Error Handling: <a href="#errormsg">ErrorMsg</a> <a href="#errorno">ErrorNo</a>
107  <a href="#metaerror">MetaError</a> <a href="#metaerrormsg">MetaErrorMsg</a> <a href="#ignoreerrors">IgnoreErrors</a><br>
108  Data Dictionary (metadata): <a href="#metadatabases">MetaDatabases</a> <a href="#metatables">MetaTables</a>
109  <a href="#metacolumns">MetaColumns</a> <a href="#metacolumnames">MetaColumnNames</a>
110  <a href="#metaprimarykeys">MetaPrimaryKeys</a> <a href="#metaforeignkeys">MetaForeignKeys</a>
111  <a href="#serverinfo">ServerInfo</a> <br>
112  Statistics and Query-Rewriting: <a href="#logsql">LogSQL</a> <a href="#fnexecute">fnExecute
113  and fnCacheExecute</a><br>
114  </font><font size="2">Deprecated: <a href="#bind">Bind</a> <a href="#blankrecordset">BlankRecordSet</a>
115  <a href="#parameter">Parameter</a></font>
116  <a href="#adorecordSet"><b><br>
117  ADORecordSet</b></a><br>
118  <font size="2">
119  Returns one field: <a href="#fields">Fields</a><br>
120 Returns one row:<a href="#fetchrow">FetchRow</a> <a href="#fetchinto">FetchInto</a>
121  <a href="#fetchobject">FetchObject</a> <a href="#fetchnextobject">FetchNextObject</a>
122  <a href="#fetchobj">FetchObj</a> <a href="#fetchnextobj">FetchNextObj</a>
123 <a href="#getrowassoc">GetRowAssoc</a> <br>
124  Returns all rows:<a href="#getarray">GetArray</a> <a href="#getrows">GetRows</a>
125  <a href="#getassoc">GetAssoc</a><br>
126  Scrolling:<a href="#move">Move</a> <a href="#movenext">MoveNext</a> <a href="#movefirst">MoveFirst</a>
127  <a href="#movelast">MoveLast</a> <a href="#abspos">AbsolutePosition</a> <a href="#currentrow">CurrentRow</a>
128  <a href="#atfirstpage">AtFirstPage</a> <a href="#atlastpage">AtLastPage</a>
129  <a href="#absolutepage">AbsolutePage</a> </font> <font size="2"><br>
130  Menu generation:<a href="#getmenu">GetMenu</a> <a href="#getmenu2">GetMenu2</a><br>
131  Dates:<a href="#userdate">UserDate</a> <a href="#usertimestamp">UserTimeStamp</a>
132  <a href="#unixdate">UnixDate</a> <a href="#unixtimestamp">UnixTimeStamp<br>
133  </a>Recordset Info:<a href="#recordcount">RecordCount</a> <a href="#po_recordcount">PO_RecordCount</a>
134  <a href="#nextrecordset">NextRecordSet</a><br>
135  Field Info:<a href="#fieldcount">FieldCount</a> <a href="#fetchfield">FetchField</a>
136  <a href="#metatype">MetaType</a><br>
137  Cleanup: <a href="#rsclose">Close</a></font> 
138</p>
139<p><font size="2"><a href="#rs2html"><b>rs2html</b></a>&nbsp; <a href="#exrs2html">example</a></font><br>
140  <a href="#adodiff">Differences between ADOdb and ADO</a><br>
141  <a href="#driverguide"><b>Database Driver Guide<br>
142  </b></a><b><a href="#changes">Change Log</a></b><br>
143</p>
144<h2>Introduction<a name="intro"></a></h2>
145<p>PHP's database access functions are not standardised. This creates a need for
146  a database class library to hide the differences between the different database
147  API's (encapsulate the differences) so we can easily switch databases. PHP 4.0.5 or later
148  is now required (because we use array-based str_replace).</p>
149<p>We currently support MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Informix,
150  PostgreSQL, FrontBase,  SQLite, Interbase (Firebird and Borland variants), Foxpro, Access, ADO, DB2, SAP DB and ODBC.
151  We have had successful reports of connecting to Progress and CacheLite via ODBC. We hope more people
152  will contribute drivers to support other databases.</p>
153<p>PHP4 supports session variables. You can store your session information using
154  ADOdb for true portability and scalability. See adodb-session.php for more information.</p>
155<p>Also read <a href="http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/tips_portable_sql.htm">tips_portable_sql.htm</a> 
156 for tips on writing
157  portable SQL.</p>
158<h2>Unique Features of ADOdb<a name="features"></a></h2>
159<ul>
160  <li><b>Easy for Windows programmers</b> to adapt to because many of the conventions
161    are similar to Microsoft's ADO.</li>
162  <li>Unlike other PHP database classes which focus only on select statements,
163    <b>we provide support code to handle inserts and updates which can be adapted
164    to multiple databases quickly.</b> Methods are provided for date handling,
165    string concatenation and string quoting characters for differing databases.</li>
166  <li>A<b> metatype system </b>is built in so that we can figure out that types
167    such as CHAR, TEXT and STRING are equivalent in different databases.</li>
168  <li><b>Easy to port</b> because all the database dependant code are stored in
169    stub functions. You do not need to port the core logic of the classes.</li>
170  <li><b>Portable table and index creation</b> with the <a href="docs-datadict.htm">datadict</a> classes.
171  </li><li><b>Database performance monitoring and SQL tuning</b> with the <a href="docs-perf.htm">performance monitoring</a> classes.
172  </li><li><b>Database-backed sessions</b> with the <a href="docs-session.htm">session management</a> classes. Supports session expiry notification.
173<li><b>Object-Relational Mapping</b> using <a href="docs-active-record.htm">ADOdb_Active_Record</a> classes.
174</li></ul>
175<h2>How People are using ADOdb<a name="users"></a></h2>
176Here are some examples of how people are using ADOdb (for a much longer list,
177visit <a href="http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/adodb-cool-apps">adodb-cool-apps</a>):
178<ul>
179<li><a href="http://phplens.com/">PhpLens</a> is a commercial data grid
180component that allows both cool Web designers and serious unshaved
181programmers to develop and maintain databases on the Web easily.
182Developed by the author of ADOdb.<p>
183
184</p></li><li><a href="http://www.interakt.ro/phakt/">PHAkt: PHP Extension for DreamWeaver Ultradev</a> allows you to script PHP in the popular Web page editor. Database handling provided by ADOdb.<p>
185
186</p></li><li><a href="http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/%7Erdanyliw/snort/snortacid.html">Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases</a>
187(ACID): PHP-based analysis engine to search and process a database of
188security incidents generated by security-related software such as IDSes
189and firewalls (e.g. Snort, ipchains). By Roman Danyliw.<p>
190
191</p></li><li><a href="http://www.postnuke.com/">PostNuke</a> is a very
192popular free content management system and weblog system. It offers
193full CSS support, HTML 4.01 transitional compliance throughout, an
194advanced blocks system, and is fully multi-lingual enabled. <p>
195
196</p></li><li><a href="http://www.auto-net.no/easypublish.php?page=index&amp;lang_id=2">EasyPublish CMS</a>
197is another free content management system for managing information and
198integrated modules on your internet, intranet- and extranet-sites. From
199Norway.<p>
200
201</p></li><li><a href="http://nola.noguska.com/">NOLA</a> is a full featured accounting, inventory, and job tracking application. It is licensed under the GPL, and developed by Noguska.
202</li></ul><p>
203
204</p><h2>Feature Requests and Bug Reports<a name="bugs"></a></h2>
205<p>Feature requests and bug reports can be emailed to <a href="mailto:jlim#natsoft.com">jlim#natsoft.com</a> 
206  or posted to the ADOdb Help forums at <a href="http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/topics.php?id=4">http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/topics.php?id=4</a>.</p>
207<h2>Installation Guide<a name="install"></a></h2>
208<p>Make sure you are running PHP 4.0.5 or later.
209  Unpack all the files into a directory accessible by your webserver.</p>
210<p>To test, try modifying some of the tutorial examples. Make sure you customize
211  the connection settings correctly. You can debug using <i>$db-&gt;debug = true</i> as shown below:</p>
212<pre>&lt;?php<br>   include('adodb/adodb.inc.php');<br> $db = <a href="#adonewconnection">ADONewConnection</a>($dbdriver); # eg 'mysql' or 'postgres'<br>   $db-&gt;debug = true;<br>   $db-&gt;<a href="#connect">Connect</a>($server, $user, $password, $database);<br>   $rs = $db-&gt;<a href="#execute">Execute</a>('select * from some_small_table');<br> print "&lt;pre&gt;";<br>    print_r($rs-&gt;<a href="#getrows">GetRows</a>());<br>  print "&lt;/pre&gt;";<br>?&gt;</pre>
213
214 <h3>Minimum Install<a name="mininstall"></a></h3>
215<p>For developers who want to release a minimal install of ADOdb, you will need:
216</p><ul>
217<li>adodb.inc.php
218</li><li>adodb-lib.inc.php
219</li><li>adodb-time.inc.php
220</li><li>drivers/adodb-$database.inc.php
221</li><li>license.txt (for legal reasons)
222</li><li>adodb-php4.inc.php
223</li><li>adodb-iterator.inc.php  (php5 functionality)
224</li></ul>
225Optional:
226<ul>
227<li>adodb-error.inc.php and lang/adodb-$lang.inc.php (if you use MetaError())
228</li><li>adodb-csvlib.inc.php (if you use cached recordsets - CacheExecute(), etc)
229</li><li>adodb-exceptions.inc.php and adodb-errorhandler.inc.php (if you use adodb error handler or php5 exceptions).
230<li>adodb-active-record.inc.php if you use <a href=docs-active-record.htm>Active Records</a>.
231</li></ul>
232
233<h3>Code Initialization Examples<a name="coding"></a></h3>
234<p>When running ADOdb, at least two files are loaded. First is adodb/adodb.inc.php,
235 which contains all functions used by all database classes. The code specific
236 to a particular database is in the adodb/driver/adodb-????.inc.php file.</p>
237 <a name="adonewconnection"></a>
238<p>For example, to connect to a mysql database:</p>
239<pre>include('/path/to/set/here/adodb.inc.php');<br>$conn = &amp;ADONewConnection('mysql');<br></pre>
240<p>Whenever you need to connect to a database, you create a Connection object
241  using the <b>ADONewConnection</b>($driver) function.
242  <b>NewADOConnection</b>($driver) is an alternative name for the same function.</p>
243
244<p>At this point, you are not connected to the database (no longer true if you pass in a <a href="#dsnsupport">dsn</a>). You will first need to decide
245whether to use <i>persistent</i> or <i>non-persistent</i> connections. The advantage of <i>persistent</i>
246connections is that they are faster, as the database connection is never closed (even
247when you call Close()). <i>Non-persistent </i>connections take up much fewer resources though,
248reducing the risk of your database and your web-server becoming overloaded.
249</p><p>For persistent connections,
250use $conn-&gt;<a href="#pconnect">PConnect()</a>,
251 or $conn-&gt;<a href="#connect">Connect()</a> for non-persistent connections.
252Some database drivers also support <a href="#nconnect">NConnect()</a>, which forces
253the creation of a new connection.
254
255<a name="connection_gotcha"></a>
256</p><p><b>Connection Gotcha</b>:  If you create two connections, but both use the same userid and password,
257PHP will share the same connection. This can cause problems if the connections are meant to
258different databases. The solution is to always use different userid's for different databases,
259 or use NConnect().
260
261 <a name="dsnsupport"></a>
262 </p><h3>Data Source Name (DSN) Support</h3>
263 <p> Since ADOdb 4.51, you can connect to a database by passing a dsn to NewADOConnection() (or ADONewConnection, which is
264 the same function). The dsn format is:
265</p><pre>   $driver://$username:$password@hostname/$database?options[=value]<br></pre><p>
266NewADOConnection() calls Connect() or PConnect() internally for you. If the connection fails, false is returned.
267</p><pre>   <font color="#008000"># non-persistent connection</font>
268    $dsn = 'mysql://root:pwd@localhost/mydb';
269    $db = NewADOConnection($dsn);
270    if (!$db) die("Connection failed");   
271   
272    <font color="#008000"># no need to call connect/pconnect!</font>
273    $arr = $db-&gt;GetArray("select * from table");
274   
275    <font color="#008000"># persistent connection</font>
276    $dsn2 = 'mysql://root:pwd@localhost/mydb?persist';
277</pre>
278<p>
279If you have special characters such as /:?_ in your dsn, then you need to rawurlencode them first:
280</p><pre>   $pwd = rawurlencode($pwd);<br>  $dsn = "mysql://root:$pwd@localhost/mydb";
281    $dsn2=rawurlencode("sybase_ase")."://user:pass@host/path?query";<br></pre>
282<p>
283Legal options are:
284</p><p>
285<table align="center" border="1"><tbody><tr><td>For all drivers</td><td>
286    'persist', 'persistent', 'debug', 'fetchmode', 'new'
287    </td></tr><tr><td>Interbase/Firebird
288    </td><td>
289                     'dialect','charset','buffers','role'
290    </td></tr><tr><td>M'soft ADO</td><td>
291                     'charpage'
292                   
293        </td></tr><tr><td>MySQL</td><td>
294                    'clientflags'
295</td></tr><tr><td>MySQLi</td><td>
296    'port', 'socket', 'clientflags'
297</td></tr><tr><td>Oci8</td><td>
298 'nls_date_format','charset'
299</td></tr></tbody></table>
300</p><p>
301For all drivers, when the options <i>persist</i> or <i>persistent</i> are set,  a persistent connection is forced; similarly, when <i>new</i> is set, then
302a new connection will be created using NConnect if the underlying driver supports it.
303The <i>debug</i> option enables debugging. The <i>fetchmode</i> calls <a href="#setfetchmode">SetFetchMode()</a>.
304If no value is defined for an option, then the value is set to 1.
305</p><p>
306ADOdb DSN's are compatible with version 1.0 of PEAR DB's DSN format.
307<a name="connect_ex">
308</a></p><h3><a name="connect_ex">Examples of Connecting to Databases</a></h3>
309<h4><a name="connect_ex">MySQL and Most Other Database Drivers</a></h4>
310<p><a name="connect_ex">MySQL connections are very straightforward, and the parameters are identical
311  to mysql_connect:</a></p>
312<pre><a name="connect_ex">  $conn = &amp;ADONewConnection('mysql'); <br>    $conn-&gt;PConnect('localhost','userid','password','database');<br> <br>    <font color="#008000"># or dsn </font>
313    $dsn = 'mysql://user:pwd@localhost/mydb';
314    $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);  # no need for Connect()
315   
316    <font color="#008000"># or persistent dsn</font>
317    $dsn = 'mysql://user:pwd@localhost/mydb?persist';
318    $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);  # no need for PConnect()
319   
320    <font color="#008000"># a more complex example:</font>
321    $pwd = urlencode($pwd);
322    $flags =  MYSQL_CLIENT_COMPRESS;
323    $dsn = "mysql://user:$pwd@localhost/mydb?persist&amp;clientflags=$flags";
324    $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);  # no need for PConnect()
325 </a></pre>
326<p><a name="connect_ex"> For most drivers, you can use the standard function: Connect($server, $user, $password, $database), or
327a </a><a href="dsnsupport">DSN</a> since ADOdb 4.51. Exceptions to this are listed below.
328</p>
329<a name=pdo>
330<h4>PDO</h4>
331<p>PDO, which only works with PHP5, accepts a driver specific connection string:
332<pre>
333    $conn =& NewADConnection('pdo');
334    $conn->Connect('mysql:host=localhost',$user,$pwd,$mydb);
335    $conn->Connect('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mydb',$user,$pwd);
336    $conn->Connect("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mydb;username=$user;password=$pwd");
337</pre>
338<p>The DSN mechanism is also supported:
339<pre>
340    $conn =& NewADConnection("pdo_mysql://user:pwd@localhost/mydb?persist"); # persist is optional
341</pre>
342<h4>PostgreSQL</h4>
343<p>PostgreSQL 7 and 8 accepts connections using: </p>
344<p>a. the standard connection string:</p>
345<pre>   $conn = &amp;ADONewConnection('postgres');  <br>    $conn-&gt;PConnect('host=localhost port=5432 dbname=mary');</pre>
346<p> b. the classical 4 parameters:</p>
347 <pre>  $conn-&gt;PConnect('localhost','userid','password','database');<br> </pre>
348<p>c. dsn:
349</p><pre>   $dsn = 'postgres://user:pwd@localhost/mydb?persist';  # persist is optional
350    $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);  # no need for Connect/PConnect<br></pre>
351<a name="ldap"></a>
352
353 <h4>LDAP</h4>
354  <p>Here is an example of querying a LDAP server. Thanks to Josh Eldridge for the driver and this example:
355</p><pre>
356require('/path/to/adodb.inc.php');
357
358/* Make sure to set this BEFORE calling Connect() */
359$LDAP_CONNECT_OPTIONS = Array(
360    Array ("OPTION_NAME"=>LDAP_OPT_DEREF, "OPTION_VALUE"=>2),
361    Array ("OPTION_NAME"=>LDAP_OPT_SIZELIMIT,"OPTION_VALUE"=>100),
362    Array ("OPTION_NAME"=>LDAP_OPT_TIMELIMIT,"OPTION_VALUE"=>30),
363    Array ("OPTION_NAME"=>LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION,"OPTION_VALUE"=>3),
364    Array ("OPTION_NAME"=>LDAP_OPT_ERROR_NUMBER,"OPTION_VALUE"=>13),
365    Array ("OPTION_NAME"=>LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS,"OPTION_VALUE"=>FALSE),
366    Array ("OPTION_NAME"=>LDAP_OPT_RESTART,"OPTION_VALUE"=>FALSE)
367);
368$host = 'ldap.baylor.edu';
369$ldapbase = 'ou=People,o=Baylor University,c=US';
370
371$ldap = NewADOConnection( 'ldap' );
372$ldap->Connect( $host, $user_name='', $password='', $ldapbase );
373
374echo "&lt;pre>";
375
376print_r( $ldap->ServerInfo() );
377$ldap->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC);
378$userName = 'eldridge';
379$filter="(|(CN=$userName*)(sn=$userName*)(givenname=$userName*)(uid=$userName*))";
380
381$rs = $ldap->Execute( $filter );
382if ($rs)
383    while ($arr = $rs->FetchRow()) {
384         print_r($arr);
385    }
386
387$rs = $ldap->Execute( $filter );
388if ($rs)
389    while (!$rs->EOF) {
390        print_r($rs->fields);   
391        $rs->MoveNext();
392    }
393   
394print_r( $ldap->GetArray( $filter ) );
395print_r( $ldap->GetRow( $filter ) );
396
397$ldap->Close();
398echo "&lt;/pre>";
399</pre>
400<p>Using DSN:
401<pre>
402$dsn = "ldap://ldap.baylor.edu/ou=People,o=Baylor University,c=US";
403$db = NewADOConnection($dsn);
404</pre>
405<h4>Interbase/Firebird</h4>
406You define the database in the $host parameter:
407<pre>   $conn = &amp;ADONewConnection('ibase'); <br>    $conn-&gt;PConnect('localhost:c:\ibase\employee.gdb','sysdba','masterkey');<br></pre>
408<p>Or dsn:
409</p><pre>   $dsn = 'firebird://user:pwd@localhost/mydb?persist&amp;dialect=3';  # persist is optional<br>   $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);  # no need for Connect/PConnect<br></pre>
410<h4>SQLite</h4>
411Sqlite will create the database file if it does not exist.
412<pre>   $conn = &amp;ADONewConnection('sqlite');
413    $conn-&gt;PConnect('c:\path\to\sqlite.db'); # sqlite will create if does not exist<br></pre>
414<p>Or dsn:
415</p><pre>   $path = urlencode('c:\path\to\sqlite.db');
416    $dsn = "sqlite://$path/?persist";  # persist is optional
417    $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);  # no need for Connect/PConnect<br></pre>
418<h4>Oracle (oci8)</h4>
419<p>With oci8, you can connect in multiple ways. Note that oci8 works fine with
420newer versions of the Oracle, eg. 9i and 10g.</p>
421<p>a. PHP and Oracle reside on the same machine, use default SID.</p>
422<pre>   $conn-&gt;Connect(false, 'scott', 'tiger');</pre>
423<p>b. TNS Name defined in tnsnames.ora (or ONAMES or HOSTNAMES), eg. 'myTNS'</p>
424<pre>   $conn-&gt;PConnect(false, 'scott', 'tiger', 'myTNS');</pre>
425<p>or</p>
426<pre>   $conn-&gt;PConnect('myTNS', 'scott', 'tiger');</pre>
427<p>c. Host Address and SID</p>
428<pre>
429    $conn->connectSID = true;
430    $conn-&gt;Connect('192.168.0.1', 'scott', 'tiger', 'SID');</pre>
431<p>d. Host Address and Service Name</p>
432<pre>   $conn-&gt;Connect('192.168.0.1', 'scott', 'tiger', 'servicename');</pre>
433<p>e. Oracle connection string:
434</p><pre>   $cstr = "(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=$host)(PORT=$port))<br>          (CONNECT_DATA=(SID=$sid)))";<br>    $conn-&gt;Connect($cstr, 'scott', 'tiger');<br></pre>
435<p>f. ADOdb dsn:
436</p><pre>   $dsn = 'oci8://user:pwd@tnsname/?persist';  # persist is optional<br>   $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);  # no need for Connect/PConnect<br> <br>    $dsn = 'oci8://user:pwd@host/sid';<br>  $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);<br> <br>    $dsn = 'oci8://user:pwd@/';   # oracle on local machine<br> $conn = ADONewConnection($dsn);<br></pre>
437<p>You can also set the charSet for Oracle 9.2 and later, supported since PHP 4.3.2, ADOdb 4.54:
438</p><pre>   $conn-&gt;charSet = 'we8iso8859p1';<br> $conn-&gt;Connect(...);<br> <br>    # or<br>    $dsn = 'oci8://user:pwd@tnsname/?charset=WE8MSWIN1252';<br> $db = ADONewConnection($dsn);<br></pre>
439<a name="dsnless"></a>
440<h4>DSN-less ODBC ( Access, MSSQL and DB2 examples)</h4>
441<p>ODBC DSN's can be created in the ODBC control panel, or you can use a DSN-less
442  connection.To use DSN-less connections with ODBC you need PHP 4.3 or later.
443</p>
444<p>For Microsoft Access:</p>
445<pre>   $db =&amp; ADONewConnection('access');<br>  $dsn = <strong>"Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};Dbq=d:\\northwind.mdb;Uid=Admin;Pwd=;";</strong>
446    $db-&gt;Connect($dsn);
447</pre>
448For Microsoft SQL Server:
449<pre>   $db =&amp; ADONewConnection('odbc_mssql');<br>  $dsn = <strong>"Driver={SQL Server};Server=localhost;Database=northwind;"</strong>;<br> $db-&gt;Connect($dsn,'userid','password');<br></pre>
450or if you prefer to use the mssql extension (which is limited to mssql 6.5 functionality):
451<pre>   $db =&amp; ADONewConnection('mssql');<br>   $db-&gt;Execute('localhost', 'userid', 'password', 'northwind');<br></pre>
452For DB2:
453<pre>
454    $dbms = 'db2'; # or 'odbc_db2' if db2 extension not available
455    $db =&amp; ADONewConnection($dbms);
456    $dsn = "driver={IBM db2 odbc DRIVER};Database=sample;hostname=localhost;port=50000;protocol=TCPIP;".
457                "uid=root; pwd=secret";<br> $db-&gt;Connect($dsn);
458</pre>
459<b>DSN-less Connections with ADO</b><br>
460If you are using versions of PHP earlier than PHP 4.3.0, DSN-less connections
461only work with Microsoft's ADO, which is Microsoft's COM based API. An example
462using the ADOdb library and Microsoft's ADO:
463<pre>&lt;?php<br>   include('adodb.inc.php'); <br>  $db = &amp;ADONewConnection("ado_mssql");<br>   print "&lt;h1&gt;Connecting DSN-less $db-&gt;databaseType...&lt;/h1&gt;";<br>       <br>    <b>$myDSN="PROVIDER=MSDASQL;DRIVER={SQL Server};"<br>       . "SERVER=flipper;DATABASE=ai;UID=sa;PWD=;"  ;</b>
464    $db-&gt;Connect($myDSN);
465   
466    $rs = $db-&gt;Execute("select * from table");
467    $arr = $rs-&gt;GetArray();
468    print_r($arr);
469?&gt;
470</pre><a name="speed"></a>
471<h2>High Speed ADOdb - tuning tips</h2>
472<p>ADOdb is a big class library, yet it <a href="http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/">consistently beats</a> all other PHP class
473  libraries in performance. This is because it is designed in a layered fashion,
474  like an onion, with the fastest functions in the innermost layer. Stick to the
475  following functions for best performance:</p>
476<table align="center" border="1" width="40%">
477  <tbody><tr>
478    <td><div align="center"><b>Innermost Layer</b></div></td>
479  </tr>
480  <tr>
481    <td><p align="center">Connect, PConnect, NConnect<br>
482        Execute, CacheExecute<br>
483        SelectLimit, CacheSelectLimit<br>
484        MoveNext, Close <br>
485        qstr, Affected_Rows, Insert_ID</p></td>
486  </tr>
487</tbody></table>
488<p>The fastest way to access the field data is by accessing the array $recordset-&gt;fields
489  directly. Also set the global variables <a href="#adodb_fetch_mode">$ADODB_FETCH_MODE</a>
490  = ADODB_FETCH_NUM, and (for oci8, ibase/firebird and odbc) <a href="#adodb_countrecs">$ADODB_COUNTRECS</a> = false
491  before you connect to your database.</p>
492<p>Consider using bind parameters if your database supports it, as it improves
493  query plan reuse. Use ADOdb's performance tuning system to identify bottlenecks
494  quickly. At the time of writing (Dec 2003), this means oci8 and odbc drivers.</p>
495 <p>Lastly make sure you have a PHP accelerator cache installed such as APC, Turck
496  MMCache, Zend Accelerator or ionCube.</p>
497 <p>Some examples:</p>
498 <table align="center" border="1"><tbody><tr><td><b>Fastest data retrieval using PHP</b></td><td><b>Fastest data retrieval using ADOdb extension</b></td></tr>
499<tr><td>
500<pre>$rs =&amp; $rs-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>while (!$rs-&gt;EOF) {<br>    var_dump($rs-&gt;fields);<br>   $rs-&gt;MoveNext();<br>}</pre></td><td>
501<pre>$rs =&amp; $rs-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>$array = adodb_getall($rs);<br>var_dump($array);<br><br><br></pre></td></tr></tbody></table>
502 <p><b>Advanced Tips</b>
503 </p><p>If you have the <a href="http://adodb.sourceforge.net/#extension">ADOdb C extension</a> installed,
504 you can replace your calls to $rs-&gt;MoveNext() with adodb_movenext($rs).
505 This doubles the speed of this operation. For retrieving entire recordsets at once,
506use GetArray(), which uses the high speed extension function adodb_getall($rs) internally.
507 </p><p>Execute() is the default way to run queries. You can use the low-level functions _Execute() and _query()
508to reduce query overhead.  Both these functions share the same parameters as Execute().
509</p><p>If you do not have any bind parameters or your database supports
510binding (without emulation),
511then you can call _Execute() directly. Calling this function bypasses
512bind emulation. Debugging is still supported in _Execute().
513</p><p>If you do not require debugging facilities nor emulated
514binding, and do not require a recordset to be returned, then you can
515call _query. This is great for inserts, updates and deletes. Calling
516this function
517bypasses emulated binding, debugging, and recordset handling. Either
518the resultid, true or false are returned by _query(). </p><p>For Informix, you can disable scrollable cursors with $db-&gt;cursorType = 0.
519</p><p><a name="hack"></a> </p>
520<h2>Hacking ADOdb Safely</h2>
521<p>You might want to modify ADOdb for your own purposes. Luckily you can
522still maintain backward compatibility by sub-classing ADOdb and using the $ADODB_NEWCONNECTION
523variable. $ADODB_NEWCONNECTION allows you to override the behaviour of ADONewConnection().
524ADOConnection() checks for this variable and will call
525the function-name stored in this variable if it is defined.
526</p><p>In the following example, new functionality for the connection object
527is placed in the <i>hack_mysql</i> and <i>hack_postgres7</i> classes. The recordset class naming convention
528can be controlled using $rsPrefix. Here we set it to 'hack_rs_', which will make ADOdb use
529<i>hack_rs_mysql</i> and <i>hack_rs_postgres7</i> as the recordset classes.
530
531
532</p><pre>class hack_mysql extends adodb_mysql {<br>var $rsPrefix = 'hack_rs_';<br>  /* Your mods here */<br>}<br><br>class hack_rs_mysql extends ADORecordSet_mysql {<br>    /* Your mods here */<br>}<br><br>class hack_postgres7 extends adodb_postgres7 {<br>var $rsPrefix = 'hack_rs_';<br>  /* Your mods here */<br>}<br><br>class hack_rs_postgres7 extends ADORecordSet_postgres7 {<br> /* Your mods here */<br>}<br><br>$ADODB_NEWCONNECTION = 'hack_factory';<br><br>function&amp; hack_factory($driver)<br>{<br>  if ($driver !== 'mysql' &amp;&amp; $driver !== 'postgres7') return false;<br>   <br>    $driver = 'hack_'.$driver;<br>  $obj = new $driver();<br>   return $obj;<br>}<br><br>include_once('adodb.inc.php');<br></pre>
533<p></p><p>Don't forget to call the constructor of the parent class in
534your constructor. If you want to use the default ADOdb drivers return
535false in the above hack_factory() function.
536 Also you can define your own ADORecordSet_empty() class, by defining a class $$this->rsPrefix.'empty' since 4.96/5.02.
537<a name="php5"></a>
538</p><h2>PHP5 Features</h2>
539 ADOdb 4.02 or later will transparently determine which version of PHP you are using.
540If PHP5 is detected, the following features become available:
541<ul>
542
543<li><b>PDO</b>: PDO drivers are available. See the <a href=#pdo>connection examples</a>. Currently PDO drivers are
544 not as powerful as native drivers, and should be treated as experimental.<br><br>
545<a name="php5iterators"></a>
546<li><b>Foreach iterators</b>: This is a very natural way of going through a recordset:
547<pre>   $ADODB_FETCH_MODE = ADODB_FETCH_NUM;<br>    $rs = $db-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>    foreach($rs as $k =&gt; $row) {<br>     echo "r1=".$row[0]." r2=".$row[1]."&lt;br&gt;";<br> }<br></pre>
548<p>
549<a name="php5exceptions"></a>
550</p></li><li><b>Exceptions</b>: Just include <i>adodb-exceptions.inc.php</i> and you can now
551catch exceptions on errors as they occur.
552<pre>   <b>include("../adodb-exceptions.inc.php");</b> <br> include("../adodb.inc.php");     <br>   try { <br>      $db = NewADOConnection("oci8"); <br>        $db-&gt;Connect('','scott','bad-password'); <br>    } catch (exception $e) { <br>       var_dump($e); <br>      adodb_backtrace($e-&gt;gettrace());<br> } <br></pre>
553<p>Note that reaching EOF is <b>not</b> considered an error nor an exception.
554</p></li></ul>
555<h3><a name="drivers"></a>Databases Supported</h3>
556The <i>name</i> below is the value you pass to NewADOConnection($name) to create a  connection object for that database.
557<p>
558</p><p>
559</p><table border="1" width="100%">
560  <tbody><tr valign="top">
561    <td><b>Name</b></td>
562    <td><b>Tested</b></td>
563    <td><b>Database</b></td>
564    <td><b><font size="2">RecordCount() usable</font></b></td>
565    <td><b>Prerequisites</b></td>
566    <td><b>Operating Systems</b></td>
567  </tr>
568  <tr valign="top">
569    <td><b><font size="2">access</font></b></td>
570    <td><font size="2">B</font></td>
571    <td><font size="2">Microsoft Access/Jet. You need to create an ODBC DSN.</font></td>
572    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
573    <td><font size="2">ODBC </font></td>
574    <td><font size="2">Windows only</font></td>
575  </tr>
576  <tr valign="top">
577    <td><b><font size="2">ado</font></b></td>
578    <td><font size="2">B</font></td>
579    <td><p><font size="2">Generic ADO, not tuned for specific databases. Allows
580        DSN-less connections. For best performance, use an OLEDB provider. This
581        is the base class for all ado drivers.</font></p>
582      <p><font size="2">You can set $db-&gt;codePage before connecting.</font></p></td>
583    <td><font size="2">? depends on database</font></td>
584    <td><font size="2">ADO or OLEDB provider</font></td>
585    <td><font size="2">Windows only</font></td>
586  </tr>
587  <tr valign="top">
588    <td><b><font size="2">ado_access</font></b></td>
589    <td><font size="2">B</font></td>
590    <td><font size="2">Microsoft Access/Jet using ADO. Allows DSN-less connections.
591      For best performance, use an OLEDB provider.</font></td>
592    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
593    <td><font size="2">ADO or OLEDB provider</font></td>
594    <td><font size="2">Windows only</font></td>
595  </tr>
596  <tr valign="top">
597    <td><b><font size="2">ado_mssql</font></b></td>
598    <td><font size="2">B</font></td>
599    <td><font size="2">Microsoft SQL Server using ADO. Allows DSN-less connections.
600      For best performance, use an OLEDB provider.</font></td>
601    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
602    <td><font size="2">ADO or OLEDB provider</font></td>
603    <td><font size="2">Windows only</font></td>
604  </tr>
605    <tr valign="top">
606    <td height="54"><b><font size="2">db2</font></b></td>
607    <td height="54"><font size="2">C</font></td>
608    <td height="54"><font size="2">Uses PHP's db2-specific extension for better performance.</font></td>
609    <td height="54"><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
610    <td height="54"><font size="2">DB2 CLI/ODBC interface</font></td>
611    <td height="54"> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows. Requires IBM DB2 Universal Database client.</font></p></td>
612  </tr>
613  <tr valign="top">
614    <td height="54"><b><font size="2">odbc_db2</font></b></td>
615    <td height="54"><font size="2">C</font></td>
616    <td height="54"><font size="2">Connects to DB2 using generic ODBC extension.</font></td>
617    <td height="54"><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
618    <td height="54"><font size="2">DB2 CLI/ODBC interface</font></td>
619    <td height="54"> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows. <a href="http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/6283/fid/14">Unix
620        install hints</a>. I have had reports that the $host and $database params have to be reversed in Connect() when using the CLI interface.</font></p></td>
621  </tr>
622  <tr valign="top">
623    <td><b><font size="2">vfp</font></b></td>
624    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
625    <td><font size="2">Microsoft Visual FoxPro. You need to create an ODBC DSN.</font></td>
626    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
627    <td><font size="2">ODBC</font></td>
628    <td><font size="2">Windows only</font></td>
629  </tr>
630  <tr valign="top">
631    <td><b><font size="2">fbsql</font></b></td>
632    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
633    <td><font size="2">FrontBase. </font></td>
634    <td><font size="2">Y</font></td>
635    <td><font size="2">?</font></td>
636    <td> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></p></td>
637  </tr>
638  <tr valign="top">
639    <td><b><font size="2">ibase</font></b></td>
640    <td><font size="2">B</font></td>
641    <td><font size="2">Interbase 6 or earlier. Some users report you might need
642      to use this<br>
643      $db-&gt;PConnect('localhost:c:/ibase/employee.gdb', "sysdba", "masterkey")
644      to connect. Lacks Affected_Rows currently.<br>
645      <br>
646      You can set $db-&gt;role, $db-&gt;dialect, $db-&gt;buffers and $db-&gt;charSet before connecting.</font></td>
647    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
648    <td><font size="2">Interbase client</font></td>
649    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
650  </tr>
651  <tr valign="top">
652    <td><b><i><font size="2">firebird</font></i></b></td>
653    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
654    <td><font size="2">Firebird version of interbase.</font></td>
655    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
656    <td><font size="2">Interbase client</font></td>
657    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
658  </tr>
659  <tr valign="top">
660    <td><b><i><font size="2">borland_ibase</font></i></b></td>
661    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
662    <td><font size="2">Borland version of Interbase 6.5 or later. Very sad that
663      the forks differ.</font></td>
664    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
665    <td><font size="2">Interbase client</font></td>
666    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
667  </tr>
668
669  <tr valign="top">
670    <td><b><font size="2">informix</font></b></td>
671    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
672    <td><font size="2">Generic informix driver. Use this if you are using Informix 7.3 or later.</font></td>
673    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
674    <td><font size="2">Informix client</font></td>
675    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
676  </tr>
677  <tr valign="top">
678    <td><b><font size="2">informix72</font></b></td>
679    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
680    <td><font size="2"> Informix databases before Informix 7.3 that do no support
681      SELECT FIRST.</font></td>
682    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
683    <td><font size="2">Informix client</font></td>
684    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
685  </tr>
686  <tr valign="top">
687    <td><b><font size="2">ldap</font></b></td>
688    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
689    <td><font size="2">LDAP driver. See this example for usage information.</font></td>
690    <td>&nbsp;</td>
691    <td><font size="2">LDAP extension</font></td>
692    <td><font size="2">?</font></td>
693  </tr>
694  <tr valign="top">
695    <td height="73"><b><font size="2">mssql</font></b></td>
696    <td height="73"><font size="2">A</font></td>
697    <td height="73"> <p><font size="2">Microsoft SQL Server 7 and later. Works
698        with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 also. Note that date formating is problematic
699        with this driver. For example, the PHP mssql extension does not return
700        the seconds for datetime!</font></p></td>
701    <td height="73"><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
702    <td height="73"><font size="2">Mssql client</font></td>
703    <td height="73"> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows. <br>
704        <a href="http://phpbuilder.com/columns/alberto20000919.php3">Unix install
705        howto</a> and <a href="http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6636&amp;mode=thread&amp;order=0">another
706        one</a>. </font></p></td>
707  </tr>
708  <tr valign="top">
709    <td height="73"><b><font size="2">mssqlpo</font></b></td>
710    <td height="73"><font size="2">A</font></td>
711    <td height="73"> <p><font size="2">Portable mssql driver. Identical to above
712        mssql driver, except that '||', the concatenation operator, is converted
713        to '+'. Useful for porting scripts from most other sql variants that use
714        ||.</font></p></td>
715    <td height="73"><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
716    <td height="73"><font size="2">Mssql client</font></td>
717    <td height="73"> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows. <a href="http://phpbuilder.com/columns/alberto20000919.php3"><br>
718        Unix install howto</a>.</font></p></td>
719  </tr>
720  <tr valign="top">
721    <td><b><font size="2">mysql</font></b></td>
722    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
723    <td><font size="2">MySQL without transaction support. You can also set $db-&gt;clientFlags
724      before connecting.</font></td>
725    <td><font size="2">Y</font></td>
726    <td><font size="2">MySQL client</font></td>
727    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
728  </tr>
729  <tr valign="top">
730    <td><font size="2"><b>mysqlt</b> or <b>maxsql</b></font></td>
731    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
732    <td> <p><font size="2">MySQL with transaction support. We recommend using
733        || as the concat operator for best portability. This can be done by running
734        MySQL using: <br>
735        <i>mysqld --ansi</i> or <i>mysqld --sql-mode=PIPES_AS_CONCAT</i></font></p></td>
736    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
737    <td><font size="2">MySQL client</font></td>
738    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
739  </tr>
740  <tr valign="top">
741    <td><b><font size="2">oci8</font></b></td>
742    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
743    <td><font size="2">Oracle 8/9. Has more functionality than <i>oracle</i> driver
744      (eg. Affected_Rows). You might have to putenv('ORACLE_HOME=...') before
745      Connect/PConnect. </font> <p><font size="2"> There are 2 ways of connecting
746        - with server IP and service name: <br>
747        <i>PConnect('serverip:1521','scott','tiger','service'</i>)<br>
748        or using an entry in TNSNAMES.ORA or ONAMES or HOSTNAMES: <br>
749        <i>PConnect(false, 'scott', 'tiger', $oraname)</i>. </font>
750      </p><p><font size="2">Since 2.31, we support Oracle REF cursor variables directly
751        (see <a href="#executecursor">ExecuteCursor</a>).</font> </p></td>
752    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
753    <td><font size="2">Oracle client</font></td>
754    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
755  </tr>
756  <tr valign="top">
757    <td><b><font size="2">oci805</font></b></td>
758    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
759    <td><font size="2">Supports reduced Oracle functionality for Oracle 8.0.5.
760      SelectLimit is not as efficient as in the oci8 or oci8po drivers.</font></td>
761    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
762    <td><font size="2">Oracle client</font></td>
763    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
764  </tr>
765  <tr valign="top">
766    <td><b><font size="2">oci8po</font></b></td>
767    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
768    <td><font size="2">Oracle 8/9 portable driver. This is nearly identical with
769      the oci8 driver except (a) bind variables in Prepare() use the ? convention,
770      instead of :bindvar, (b) field names use the more common PHP convention
771      of lowercase names. </font> <p><font size="2">Use this driver if porting
772        from other databases is important. Otherwise the oci8 driver offers better
773        performance. </font> </p></td>
774    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
775    <td><font size="2">Oracle client</font></td>
776    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
777  </tr>
778  <tr valign="top">
779    <td><b><font size="2">odbc</font></b></td>
780    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
781    <td><font size="2">Generic ODBC, not tuned for specific databases. To connect,
782      use <br>
783      PConnect('DSN','user','pwd'). This is the base class for all odbc derived
784      drivers.</font></td>
785    <td><font size="2">? depends on database</font></td>
786    <td><font size="2">ODBC</font></td>
787    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows. <a href="http://phpbuilder.com/columns/alberto20000919.php3?page=4">Unix
788      hints.</a></font></td>
789  </tr>
790  <tr valign="top">
791    <td><b><font size="2">odbc_mssql</font></b></td>
792    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
793    <td><font size="2">Uses ODBC to connect to MSSQL</font></td>
794    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
795    <td><font size="2">ODBC</font></td>
796    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows. </font></td>
797  </tr>
798  <tr valign="top">
799    <td><b><font size="2">odbc_oracle</font></b></td>
800    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
801    <td><font size="2">Uses ODBC to connect to Oracle</font></td>
802    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
803    <td><font size="2">ODBC</font></td>
804    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows. </font></td>
805  </tr>
806   
807  <tr valign="top">
808    <td><b><font size="2">odbtp</font></b></td>
809    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
810    <td><font size="2">Generic odbtp driver. <a href="http://odbtp.sourceforge.net/">Odbtp</a> is a software for
811    accessing Windows ODBC data sources from other operating systems.</font></td>
812    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
813    <td><font size="2">odbtp</font></td>
814    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
815  </tr>
816  <tr valign="top">
817    <td><b><font size="2">odbtp_unicode</font></b></td>
818    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
819    <td><font size="2">Odtbp with unicode support</font></td>
820    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
821    <td><font size="2">odbtp</font></td>
822    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
823  </tr>
824  <tr valign="top">
825    <td height="34"><b><font size="2">oracle</font></b></td>
826    <td height="34"><font size="2">C</font></td>
827    <td height="34"><font size="2">Implements old Oracle 7 client API. Use oci8
828      driver if possible for better performance.</font></td>
829    <td height="34"><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
830    <td height="34"><font size="2">Oracle client</font></td>
831    <td height="34"><font size="2">Unix and Windows</font></td>
832  </tr>
833  <tr valign="top">
834    <td height="34"><b><font size="2">netezza</font></b></td>
835    <td height="34"><font size="2">C</font></td>
836    <td height="34"><font size="2">Netezza driver. Netezza is based on postgres code-base.</font></td>
837    <td height="34"><font size="2">Y</font></td>
838    <td height="34"><font size="2">?</font></td>
839    <td height="34"><font size="2">?</font></td>
840  </tr>
841     <tr valign="top">
842    <td><b><font size="2">pdo</font></b></td>
843    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
844    <td><font size="2">Generic PDO driver for PHP5. </font></td>
845    <td><font size="2">Y</font></td>
846    <td><font size="2">PDO extension and database specific drivers</font></td>
847    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows. </font></td>
848  </tr>
849  <tr valign="top">
850    <td><b><font size="2">postgres</font></b></td>
851    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
852    <td><font size="2">Generic PostgreSQL driver. Currently identical to postgres7
853      driver.</font></td>
854    <td><font size="2">Y</font></td>
855    <td><font size="2">PostgreSQL client</font></td>
856    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows. </font></td>
857  </tr>
858  <tr valign="top">
859    <td><b><font size="2">postgres64</font></b></td>
860    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
861    <td><font size="2">For PostgreSQL 6.4 and earlier which does not support LIMIT
862      internally.</font></td>
863    <td><font size="2">Y</font></td>
864    <td><font size="2">PostgreSQL client</font></td>
865    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows. </font></td>
866  </tr>
867  <tr valign="top">
868    <td><b><font size="2">postgres7</font></b></td>
869    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
870    <td><font size="2">PostgreSQL which supports LIMIT and other version 7 functionality.</font></td>
871    <td><font size="2">Y</font></td>
872    <td><font size="2">PostgreSQL client</font></td>
873    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows. </font></td>
874  </tr>
875    <tr valign="top">
876    <td><b><font size="2">postgres8</font></b></td>
877    <td><font size="2">A</font></td>
878    <td><font size="2">PostgreSQL which supports version 8 functionality.</font></td>
879    <td><font size="2">Y</font></td>
880    <td><font size="2">PostgreSQL client</font></td>
881    <td><font size="2">Unix and Windows. </font></td>
882  </tr>
883  <tr valign="top">
884    <td><b><font size="2">sapdb</font></b></td>
885    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
886    <td><font size="2">SAP DB. Should work reliably as based on ODBC driver.</font></td>
887    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
888    <td><font size="2">SAP ODBC client</font></td>
889    <td> <p><font size="2">?</font></p></td>
890  </tr>
891  <tr valign="top">
892    <td><b><font size="2">sqlanywhere</font></b></td>
893    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
894    <td><font size="2">Sybase SQL Anywhere. Should work reliably as based on ODBC
895      driver.</font></td>
896    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
897    <td><font size="2">SQL Anywhere ODBC client</font></td>
898    <td> <p><font size="2">?</font></p></td>
899  </tr>
900  <tr valign="top">
901    <td height="54"><b><font size="2">sqlite</font></b></td>
902    <td height="54"><font size="2">B</font></td>
903    <td height="54"><font size="2">SQLite.</font></td>
904    <td height="54"><font size="2">Y</font></td>
905    <td height="54"><font size="2">-</font></td>
906    <td height="54"> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows.</font></p></td>
907  </tr>
908    <tr valign="top">
909    <td height="54"><b><font size="2">sqlitepo</font></b></td>
910    <td height="54"><font size="2">B</font></td>
911    <td height="54"><font size="2">Portable SQLite driver.  This is because assoc mode does not work like other drivers in sqlite.
912   Namely, when selecting (joining) multiple tables, the table
913      names are included in the assoc keys in the "sqlite" driver.</font><p>
914<font size="2">   In "sqlitepo" driver, the table names are stripped from the returned column names.
915      When this results in a conflict,  the first field get preference.
916      </font></p></td>
917    <td height="54"><font size="2">Y</font></td>
918    <td height="54"><font size="2">-</font></td>
919    <td height="54"> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows.</font></p></td>
920  </tr>
921 
922     
923  <tr valign="top">
924    <td><b><font size="2">sybase</font></b></td>
925    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
926    <td><font size="2">Sybase. </font></td>
927    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
928    <td><font size="2">Sybase client</font></td>
929    <td> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows.</font></p></td>
930  </tr>
931 
932    <tr valign="top">
933    <td><b><font size="2">sybase_ase</font></b></td>
934    <td><font size="2">C</font></td>
935    <td><font size="2">Sybase ASE. </font></td>
936    <td><font size="2">Y/N</font></td>
937    <td><font size="2">Sybase client</font></td>
938    <td> <p><font size="2">Unix and Windows.</font></p></td>
939  </tr>
940  </tbody></table>
941
942<p></p><p>The "Tested" column indicates how extensively the code has been tested
943  and used. <br>
944  A = well tested and used by many people<br>
945  B = tested and usable, but some features might not be implemented<br>
946  C = user contributed or experimental driver. Might not fully support all of
947  the latest features of ADOdb. </p>
948<p>The column "RecordCount() usable" indicates whether RecordCount()
949  return the number of rows, or returns -1 when a SELECT statement is executed.
950  If this column displays Y/N then the RecordCount() is emulated when the global
951  variable $ADODB_COUNTRECS=true (this is the default). Note that for large recordsets,
952  it might be better to disable RecordCount() emulation because substantial amounts
953  of memory are required to cache the recordset for counting. Also there is a
954  speed penalty of 40-50% if emulation is required. This is emulated in most databases
955  except for PostgreSQL and MySQL. This variable is checked every time a query
956  is executed, so you can selectively choose which recordsets to count.</p>
957<p> 
958</p><hr />
959<h1>Tutorials<a name="quickstart"></a></h1>
960<h3>Example 1: Select Statement<a name="ex1"></a></h3>
961<p>Task: Connect to the Access Northwind DSN, display the first 2 columns of each
962  row.</p>
963<p>In this example, we create a ADOConnection object, which represents the connection
964  to the database. The connection is initiated with <a href="#pconnect"><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">PConnect</font></a>,
965  which is a persistent connection. Whenever we want to query the database, we
966  call the <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">ADOConnection.<a href="#execute">Execute</a>()</font>
967  function. This returns an ADORecordSet object which is actually a cursor that
968  holds the current row in the array <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">fields[]</font>.
969  We use <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#movenext">MoveNext</a>()</font>
970  to move from row to row.</p>
971<p>NB: A useful function that is not used in this example is <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#selectlimit">SelectLimit</a></font>,
972  which allows us to limit the number of rows shown.
973</p><pre>&lt;?<br><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><b>include</b>('adodb.inc.php');     # load code common to ADOdb<br>$<font color="#660000">conn</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('access'); # create a connection<br>$<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;PConnect('northwind');   # connect to MS-Access, northwind DSN<br>$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font> = &amp;$<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;Execute('select * from products');<br>if (!$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>) <br>    print $<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;ErrorMsg();<br>else<br><b>while</b> (!$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;EOF) {<br>   <b>print</b> $<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;fields[0].' '.$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;fields[1].'&lt;BR&gt;';<br>  $<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;MoveNext();<br>}</font><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">
974
975$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;Close(); # optional<br>$<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;Close(); # optional<br></font>
976?&gt;
977</pre>
978<p>The $<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">recordSet</font> returned stores
979  the current row in the <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">$recordSet-&gt;fields</font>
980  array, indexed by column number (starting from zero). We use the <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#movenext">MoveNext</a>()</font>
981  function to move to the next row. The <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">EOF</font>
982  property is set to true when end-of-file is reached. If an error occurs in Execute(),
983  we return false instead of a recordset.</p>
984<p>The <code>$recordSet-&gt;fields[]</code> array is generated by the PHP database
985  extension. Some database extensions only index by number and do not index the
986  array by field name. To force indexing by name - that is associative arrays
987  - use the SetFetchMode function. Each recordset saves and uses whatever fetch
988  mode was set when the recordset was created in Execute() or SelectLimit().
989</p><pre>   $db-&gt;SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_NUM);<br>  $rs1 = $db-&gt;Execute('select * from table');<br>  $db-&gt;SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC);<br>    $rs2 = $db-&gt;Execute('select * from table');<br>  print_r($rs1-&gt;fields); # shows <i>array([0]=&gt;'v0',[1] =&gt;'v1')</i>
990    print_r($rs2-&gt;fields); # shows <i>array(['col1']=&gt;'v0',['col2'] =&gt;'v1')</i>
991</pre>
992<p> </p>
993<p>To get the number of rows in the select statement, you can use <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">$recordSet-&gt;<a href="#recordcount">RecordCount</a>()</font>.
994  Note that it can return -1 if the number of rows returned cannot be determined.</p>
995<h3>Example 2: Advanced Select with Field Objects<a name="ex2"></a></h3>
996<p>Select a table, display the first two columns. If the second column is a date
997  or timestamp, reformat the date to US format.</p>
998<pre>&lt;?<br><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><b>include</b>('adodb.inc.php'); # load code common to ADOdb<br>$<font color="#660000">conn</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('access'); # create a connection<br>$<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;PConnect('northwind');   # connect to MS-Access, northwind dsn<br>$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font> = &amp;$<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;Execute('select CustomerID,OrderDate from Orders');<br>if (!$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>) <br>   print $<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;ErrorMsg();<br>else<br><b>while</b> (!$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;EOF) {<br>   $<font color="#660000">fld</font> = <font color="#336600"><b>$</b><font color="#660000">recordSet</font><b>-&gt;FetchField</b></font><font color="#006600">(</font>1<font color="#006600">);</font>
999    $<font color="#660000">type</font> = <font color="#336600"><b>$</b><font color="#660000">recordSet</font><b>-&gt;MetaType</b></font>($fld-&gt;type);<br><br>    <b>if</b> ( $<font color="#660000">type</font> == 'D' || $<font color="#660000">type</font> == 'T') <br>        <b>print</b> $<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;fields[0].' '.<br>         <b><font color="#336600">$</font></b><font color="#660000">recordSet</font><b><font color="#336600">-&gt;UserDate</font></b>($<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;fields[1],'<b>m/d/Y</b>').'&lt;BR&gt;';<br>    <b>else </b>
1000        <b>print</b> $<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;fields[0].' '.$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;fields[1].'&lt;BR&gt;';<br><br>  $<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;MoveNext();<br>}</font><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">
1001$<font color="#660000">recordSet</font>-&gt;Close(); # optional<br>$<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;Close(); # optional<br></font>
1002?&gt;
1003</pre>
1004<p>In this example, we check the field type of the second column using <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#fetchfield">FetchField</a>().</font> 
1005  This returns an object with at least 3 fields.</p>
1006<ul>
1007  <li><b>name</b>: name of column</li>
1008  <li> <b>type</b>: native field type of column</li>
1009  <li> <b>max_length</b>: maximum length of field. Some databases such as MySQL
1010    do not return the maximum length of the field correctly. In these cases max_length
1011    will be set to -1.</li>
1012</ul>
1013<p>We then use <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#metatype">MetaType</a>()</font> 
1014  to translate the native type to a <i>generic</i> type. Currently the following
1015  <i>generic</i> types are defined:</p>
1016<ul>
1017  <li><b>C</b>: character fields that should be shown in a &lt;input type="text"&gt;
1018    tag.</li>
1019  <li><b>X</b>: TeXt, large text fields that should be shown in a &lt;textarea&gt;</li>
1020  <li><b>B</b>: Blobs, or Binary Large Objects. Typically images.
1021  </li><li><b>D</b>: Date field</li>
1022  <li><b>T</b>: Timestamp field</li>
1023  <li><b>L</b>: Logical field (boolean or bit-field)</li>
1024  <li><b>I</b>:&nbsp; Integer field</li>
1025  <li><b>N</b>: Numeric field. Includes autoincrement, numeric, floating point,
1026    real and integer. </li>
1027  <li><b>R</b>: Serial field. Includes serial, autoincrement integers. This works
1028    for selected databases. </li>
1029</ul>
1030<p>If the metatype is of type date or timestamp, then we print it using the user
1031  defined date format with <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#userdate">UserDate</a>(),</font>
1032  which converts the PHP SQL date string format to a user defined one. Another
1033  use for <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#metatype">MetaType</a>()</font>
1034  is data validation before doing an SQL insert or update.</p>
1035<h3>Example 3: Inserting<a name="ex3"></a></h3>
1036<p>Insert a row to the Orders table containing dates and strings that need to
1037  be quoted before they can be accepted by the database, eg: the single-quote
1038  in the word <i>John's</i>.</p>
1039<pre>&lt;?<br><b>include</b>('adodb.inc.php'); # load code common to ADOdb<br>$<font color="#660000">conn</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('access'); # create a connection<br><br>$<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;PConnect('northwind');   # connect to MS-Access, northwind dsn<br>$<font color="#660000">shipto</font> = <font color="#006600"><b>$conn-&gt;qstr</b></font>("<i>John's Old Shoppe</i>");<br><br>$<font color="#660000">sql</font> = "insert into orders (customerID,EmployeeID,OrderDate,ShipName) ";<br>$<font color="#660000">sql</font> .= "values ('ANATR',2,".<b><font color="#006600">$conn-&gt;DBDate(</font>time()<font color="#006600">)</font></b><font color="#006600">.</font>",$<font color="#660000">shipto</font>)";<br><br><b>if</b> ($<font color="#660000">conn</font>-&gt;Execute($<font color="#660000">sql</font>) <font color="#336600"><b>=== false</b></font>) {<br>    <b>print</b> 'error inserting: '.<font color="#336600"><b>$conn-&gt;ErrorMsg()</b></font>.'&lt;BR&gt;';<br>}<br>?&gt;<br></pre>
1040<p>In this example, we see the advanced date and quote handling facilities of
1041  ADOdb. The unix timestamp (which is a long integer) is appropriately formated
1042  for Access with <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#dbdate">DBDate</a>()</font>,
1043  and the right escape character is used for quoting the <i>John's Old Shoppe</i>,
1044  which is<b> </b><i>John'<b>'</b>s Old Shoppe</i> and not PHP's default <i>John<b>'</b>s
1045  Old Shoppe</i> with <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#qstr">qstr</a>()</font>.
1046</p>
1047<p>Observe the error-handling of the Execute statement. False is returned by<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"> 
1048  <a href="#execute">Execute</a>() </font>if an error occured. The error message
1049  for the last error that occurred is displayed in <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#errormsg">ErrorMsg</a>()</font>.
1050  Note: <i>php_track_errors</i> might have to be enabled for error messages to
1051  be saved.</p>
1052<h3> Example 4: Debugging<a name="ex4"></a></h3>
1053<pre>&lt;?<br><b>include</b>('adodb.inc.php'); # load code common to ADOdb<br>$<font color="#663300">conn</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('access'); # create a connection<br>$<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;PConnect('northwind');   # connect to MS-Access, northwind dsn<br><font>$<font color="#663300">shipto</font> = <b>$conn-&gt;qstr</b>("John's Old Shoppe");<br>$<font color="#663300">sql</font> = "insert into orders (customerID,EmployeeID,OrderDate,ShipName) ";<br>$<font color="#663300">sql</font> .= "values ('ANATR',2,".$<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;FormatDate(time()).",$shipto)";<br><b><font color="#336600">$<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;debug = true;</font></b>
1054<b>if</b> ($<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;Execute($sql) <b>=== false</b>) <b>print</b> 'error inserting';</font>
1055?&gt;
1056</pre>
1057<p>In the above example, we have turned on debugging by setting <b>debug = true</b>.
1058  This will display the SQL statement before execution, and also show any error
1059  messages. There is no need to call <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#errormsg">ErrorMsg</a>()</font>
1060  in this case. For displaying the recordset, see the <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#exrs2html">rs2html</a>()
1061  </font>example.</p>
1062<p>Also see the section on <a href="#errorhandling">Custom Error Handlers</a>.</p>
1063<h3>Example 5: MySQL and Menus<a name="ex5"></a></h3>
1064<p>Connect to MySQL database <i>agora</i>, and generate a &lt;select&gt; menu
1065  from an SQL statement where the &lt;option&gt; captions are in the 1st column,
1066  and the value to send back to the server is in the 2nd column.</p>
1067<pre>&lt;?<br><b>include</b>('adodb.inc.php'); # load code common to ADOdb<br>$<font color="#663300">conn</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('mysql');  # create a connection<br>$<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;PConnect('localhost','userid','','agora');# connect to MySQL, agora db<br><font>$<font color="#663300">sql</font> = 'select CustomerName, CustomerID from customers';<br>$<font color="#663300">rs</font> = $<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;Execute($sql);<br><b>print</b> <b><font color="#336600">$<font color="#663300">rs</font>-&gt;GetMenu('GetCust','Mary Rosli');<br>?&gt;</font></b></font></pre>
1068<p>Here we define a menu named GetCust, with the menu option 'Mary Rosli' selected.
1069  See <a href="#getmenu"><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">GetMenu</font></a><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">()</font>.
1070  We also have functions that return the recordset as an array: <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><a href="#getarray">GetArray</a>()</font>,
1071  and as an associative array with the key being the first column: <a href="#getassoc1">GetAssoc</a>().</p>
1072<h3>Example 6: Connecting to 2 Databases At Once<a name="ex6"></a></h3>
1073<pre>&lt;?<br><b>include</b>('adodb.inc.php'); # load code common to ADOdb<br>$<font color="#663300">conn1</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('mysql');  # create a mysql connection<br>$<font color="#663300">conn2</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('oracle');  # create a oracle connection<br><br>$conn1-&gt;PConnect($server, $userid, $password, $database);<br>$conn2-&gt;PConnect(false, $ora_userid, $ora_pwd, $oraname);<br><br>$conn1-&gt;Execute('insert ...');<br>$conn2-&gt;Execute('update ...');<br>?&gt;</pre>
1074<p> 
1075</p><h3>Example 7: Generating Update and Insert SQL<a name="ex7"></a></h3>
1076<p>Since ADOdb 4.56, we support <a href="reference.functions.getupdatesql.html#autoexecute">AutoExecute()</a>,
1077which simplifies things by providing an advanced wrapper for GetInsertSQL() and GetUpdateSQL(). For example,
1078an INSERT can be carried out with:
1079
1080<pre>
1081    $record["firstname"] = "Bob";
1082    $record["lastname"] = "Smith";
1083    $record["created"] = time();
1084    $insertSQL = $conn->AutoExecute($rs, $record, 'INSERT');
1085</pre>
1086
1087and an UPDATE with:
1088<pre>
1089    $record["firstname"] = "Caroline";
1090    $record["lastname"] = "Smith"; # Update Caroline's lastname from Miranda to Smith
1091    $insertSQL = $conn->AutoExecute($rs, $record, 'UPDATE', 'id = 1');
1092</pre>
1093<p>
1094The rest of this section is out-of-date:
1095<p>ADOdb 1.31 and later supports two new recordset functions: GetUpdateSQL( ) and
1096GetInsertSQL( ). This allow you to perform a "SELECT * FROM table query WHERE...",
1097make a copy of the $rs-&gt;fields, modify the fields, and then generate the SQL to
1098update or insert into the table automatically.
1099<p> We show how the functions can be used when accessing a table with the following
1100  fields: (ID, FirstName, LastName, Created).
1101</p><p> Before these functions can be called, you need to initialize the recordset
1102  by performing a select on the table. Idea and code by Jonathan Younger jyounger#unilab.com.
1103 Since ADOdb 2.42, you can pass a  table name instead of a recordset into
1104GetInsertSQL (in $rs), and it will generate an insert statement for that table.
1105</p><p>
1106</p><pre>&lt;?<br>#==============================================<br># SAMPLE GetUpdateSQL() and GetInsertSQL() code<br>#==============================================<br>include('adodb.inc.php');<br>include('tohtml.inc.php');<br><br>#==========================<br># This code tests an insert<br><br>$sql = "SELECT * FROM ADOXYZ WHERE id = -1"; <br># Select an empty record from the database<br><br>$conn = &amp;ADONewConnection("mysql");  # create a connection<br>$conn-&gt;debug=1;<br>$conn-&gt;PConnect("localhost", "admin", "", "test"); # connect to MySQL, testdb<br>$rs = $conn-&gt;Execute($sql); # Execute the query and get the empty recordset<br><br>$record = array(); # Initialize an array to hold the record data to insert<br><br># Set the values for the fields in the record<br># Note that field names are case-insensitive<br>$record["firstname"] = "Bob";<br>$record["lastNamE"] = "Smith";<br>$record["creaTed"] = time();<br><br># Pass the empty recordset and the array containing the data to insert<br># into the GetInsertSQL function. The function will process the data and return<br># a fully formatted insert sql statement.<br>$insertSQL = $conn-&gt;GetInsertSQL($rs, $record);<br><br>$conn-&gt;Execute($insertSQL); # Insert the record into the database<br><br>#==========================<br># This code tests an update<br><br>$sql = "SELECT * FROM ADOXYZ WHERE id = 1"; <br># Select a record to update<br><br>$rs = $conn-&gt;Execute($sql); # Execute the query and get the existing record to update<br><br>$record = array(); # Initialize an array to hold the record data to update<br><br># Set the values for the fields in the record<br># Note that field names are case-insensitive<br>$record["firstname"] = "Caroline";<br>$record["LasTnAme"] = "Smith"; # Update Caroline's lastname from Miranda to Smith<br><br># Pass the single record recordset and the array containing the data to update<br># into the GetUpdateSQL function. The function will process the data and return<br># a fully formatted update sql statement with the correct WHERE clause.<br># If the data has not changed, no recordset is returned<br>$updateSQL = $conn-&gt;GetUpdateSQL($rs, $record);<br><br>$conn-&gt;Execute($updateSQL); # Update the record in the database<br>$conn-&gt;Close();<br>?&gt;<br></pre>
1107<a name="ADODB_FORCE_TYPE"></a>
1108<b>$ADODB_FORCE_TYPE</b><p>
1109The behaviour of AutoExecute(), GetUpdateSQL() and GetInsertSQL() 
1110when converting empty or null PHP variables to SQL is controlled by the
1111 global $ADODB_FORCE_TYPE variable. Set it to one of the values below. Default
1112  is ADODB_FORCE_VALUE (3):
1113</p><pre>0 = ignore empty fields. All empty fields in array are ignored.<br>1 = force null. All empty, php null and string 'null' fields are changed to sql NULL values.<br>2 = force empty. All empty, php null and string 'null' fields are changed to sql empty '' or 0 values.<br>3 = force value. Value is left as it is. Php null and string 'null' are set to sql NULL values and <br>    empty fields '' are set to empty '' sql values.<br><br>define('ADODB_FORCE_IGNORE',0);<br>define('ADODB_FORCE_NULL',1);<br>define('ADODB_FORCE_EMPTY',2);<br>define('ADODB_FORCE_VALUE',3);<br></pre>
1114<p>
1115Thanks to Niko (nuko#mbnet.fi) for the $ADODB_FORCE_TYPE code.
1116</p><p>
1117Note: the constant ADODB_FORCE_NULLS is obsolete since 4.52 and is ignored. Set $ADODB_FORCE_TYPE = ADODB_FORCE_NULL
1118for equivalent behaviour.
1119<p>Since 4.62, the table name to be used can be overridden by setting $rs->tableName before AutoExecute(), GetInsertSQL() or GetUpdateSQL() is called.
1120</p><h3>Example 8: Implementing Scrolling with Next and Previous<a name="ex8"></a></h3>
1121<p> The following code creates a very simple recordset pager, where you can scroll
1122  from page to page of a recordset.</p>
1123<pre>include_once('../adodb.inc.php');<br>include_once('../adodb-pager.inc.php');<br>session_start();<br><br>$db = NewADOConnection('mysql');<br><br>$db-&gt;Connect('localhost','root','','xphplens');<br><br>$sql = "select * from adoxyz ";<br><br>$pager = new ADODB_Pager($db,$sql);<br>$pager-&gt;Render($rows_per_page=5);</pre>
1124<p>This will create a basic record pager that looks like this: <a name="scr"></a> 
1125</p><p>
1126<table bgcolor="beige" border="1">
1127  <tbody><tr>
1128    <td> <a href="#scr"><code>|&lt;</code></a> &nbsp; <a href="#scr"><code>&lt;&lt;</code></a>
1129      &nbsp; <a href="#scr"><code>&gt;&gt;</code></a> &nbsp; <a href="#scr"><code>&gt;|</code></a>
1130      &nbsp; </td>
1131  </tr>
1132  <tr>
1133    <td><table bgcolor="white" border="1" cols="4" width="100%">
1134        <tbody><tr><th>ID</th>
1135        <th>First Name</th>
1136        <th>Last Name</th>
1137        <th>Date Created</th>
1138        </tr><tr>
1139          <td align="right">36&nbsp;</td>
1140          <td>Alan&nbsp;</td>
1141          <td>Turing&nbsp;</td>
1142          <td>Sat 06, Oct 2001&nbsp;</td>
1143        </tr>
1144        <tr>
1145          <td align="right">37&nbsp;</td>
1146          <td>Serena&nbsp;</td>
1147          <td>Williams&nbsp;</td>
1148          <td>Sat 06, Oct 2001&nbsp;</td>
1149        </tr>
1150        <tr>
1151          <td align="right">38&nbsp;</td>
1152          <td>Yat Sun&nbsp;</td>
1153          <td>Sun&nbsp;</td>
1154          <td>Sat 06, Oct 2001&nbsp;</td>
1155        </tr>
1156        <tr>
1157          <td align="right">39&nbsp;</td>
1158          <td>Wai Hun&nbsp;</td>
1159          <td>See&nbsp;</td>
1160          <td>Sat 06, Oct 2001&nbsp;</td>
1161        </tr>
1162        <tr>
1163          <td align="right">40&nbsp;</td>
1164          <td>Steven&nbsp;</td>
1165          <td>Oey&nbsp;</td>
1166          <td>Sat 06, Oct 2001&nbsp;</td>
1167        </tr>
1168      </tbody></table></td>
1169  </tr>
1170  <tr>
1171    <td><font size="-1">Page 8/10</font></td>
1172  </tr>
1173</tbody></table>
1174</p><p>The number of rows to display at one time is controled by the Render($rows)
1175  method. If you do not pass any value to Render(), ADODB_Pager will default to
1176  10 records per page.
1177</p><p>You can control the column titles by modifying your SQL (supported by most
1178  databases):
1179</p><pre>$sql = 'select id as "ID", firstname as "First Name", <br>       lastname as "Last Name", created as "Date Created" <br>       from adoxyz';</pre>
1180<p>The above code can be found in the <i>adodb/tests/testpaging.php</i> example
1181  included with this release, and the class ADODB_Pager in <i>adodb/adodb-pager.inc.php</i>.
1182  The ADODB_Pager code can be adapted by a programmer so that the text links can
1183  be replaced by images, and the dull white background be replaced with more interesting
1184  colors.
1185</p><p>You can also allow display of html by setting $pager-&gt;htmlSpecialChars = false.
1186</p><p>Some of the code used here was contributed by Iv&aacute;n Oliva and Cornel
1187  G. </p>
1188<h3><a name="ex9"></a>Example 9: Exporting in CSV or Tab-Delimited Format</h3>
1189<p>We provide some helper functions to export in comma-separated-value (CSV) and
1190  tab-delimited formats:</p>
1191<pre><b>include_once('/path/to/adodb/toexport.inc.php');</b><br>include_once('/path/to/adodb/adodb.inc.php');<br>
1192$db = &amp;NewADOConnection('mysql');<br>$db-&gt;Connect($server, $userid, $password, $database);<br><br>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute('select fname as "First Name", surname as "Surname" from table');<br><br>print "&lt;pre&gt;";<br>print <b>rs2csv</b>($rs); # return a string, CSV format<p>print '&lt;hr&gt;';<br><br>$rs-&gt;MoveFirst(); # note, some databases do not support MoveFirst<br>print <b>rs2tab</b>($rs,<i>false</i>); # return a string, tab-delimited<br>                         # false == suppress field names in first line</p>print '&lt;hr&gt;';<br>$rs-&gt;MoveFirst();<br><b>rs2tabout</b>($rs); # send to stdout directly (there is also an rs2csvout function)<br>print "&lt;/pre&gt;";<br><br>$rs-&gt;MoveFirst();<br>$fp = fopen($path, "w");<br>if ($fp) {<br>  <b>rs2csvfile</b>($rs, $fp); # write to file (there is also an rs2tabfile function)<br>  fclose($fp);<br>}<br></pre>
1193<p> Carriage-returns or newlines are converted to spaces. Field names are returned
1194  in the first line of text. Strings containing the delimiter character are quoted
1195  with double-quotes. Double-quotes are double-quoted again. This conforms to
1196  Excel import and export guide-lines.
1197</p><p>All the above functions take as an optional last parameter, $addtitles which
1198  defaults to <i>true</i>. When set to <i>false</i> field names in the first line
1199  are suppressed. <br>
1200</p><h3>Example 10: Recordset Filters<a name="ex10"></a></h3>
1201<p>Sometimes we want to pre-process all rows in a recordset before we use it.
1202  For example, we want to ucwords all text in recordset.
1203</p><pre>include_once('adodb/rsfilter.inc.php');<br>include_once('adodb/adodb.inc.php');<br><br>// ucwords() every element in the recordset<br>function do_ucwords(&amp;$arr,$rs)<br>{<br>  foreach($arr as $k =&gt; $v) {<br>      $arr[$k] = ucwords($v);<br> }<br>}<br><br>$db = NewADOConnection('mysql');<br>$db-&gt;PConnect('server','user','pwd','db');<br><br>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute('select ... from table');<br>$rs = <b>RSFilter</b>($rs,'do_ucwords');<br></pre>
1204<p>The <i>RSFilter</i> function takes 2 parameters, the recordset, and the name
1205  of the <i>filter</i> function. It returns the processed recordset scrolled to
1206  the first record. The <i>filter</i> function takes two parameters, the current
1207  row as an array, and the recordset object. For future compatibility, you should
1208  not use the original recordset object. </p>
1209<h3>Example 11:<a name="ex11"></a> Smart Transactions</h3>
1210The old way of doing transactions required you to use
1211<pre>$conn-&gt;<b>BeginTrans</b>();<br>$ok = $conn-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>if ($ok) $ok = $conn-&gt;Execute($sql2);<br>if (!$ok) $conn-&gt;<b>RollbackTrans</b>();<br>else $conn-&gt;<b>CommitTrans</b>();<br></pre>
1212This is very complicated for large projects because you have to track the error
1213status. Smart Transactions is much simpler. You start a smart transaction by calling
1214StartTrans():
1215<pre>$conn-&gt;<b>StartTrans</b>();<br>$conn-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>$conn-&gt;Execute($Sql2);<br>$conn-&gt;<b>CompleteTrans</b>();<br></pre>
1216CompleteTrans() detects when an SQL error occurs, and will Rollback/Commit as
1217appropriate. To specificly force a rollback even if no error occured, use FailTrans().
1218Note that the rollback is done in CompleteTrans(), and not in FailTrans().
1219<pre>$conn-&gt;<b>StartTrans</b>();<br>$conn-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>if (!CheckRecords()) $conn-&gt;<strong>FailTrans</strong>();<br>$conn-&gt;Execute($Sql2);<br>$conn-&gt;<b>CompleteTrans</b>();<br></pre>
1220<p>You can also check if a transaction has failed, using HasFailedTrans(), which
1221  returns true if FailTrans() was called, or there was an error in the SQL execution.
1222  Make sure you call HasFailedTrans() before you call CompleteTrans(), as it is
1223  only works between StartTrans/CompleteTrans.
1224</p><p>Lastly, StartTrans/CompleteTrans is nestable, and only the outermost block
1225  is executed. In contrast, BeginTrans/CommitTrans/RollbackTrans is NOT nestable.
1226</p><pre>$conn-&gt;<strong>StartTrans</strong>();<br>$conn-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>  $conn-&gt;<strong>StartTrans</strong>();    <font color="#006600"># ignored</font>
1227  if (!CheckRecords()) $conn-&gt;FailTrans();
1228  $conn-&gt;<strong>CompleteTrans</strong>(); <font color="#006600"># ignored</font>
1229$conn-&gt;Execute($Sql2);
1230$conn-&gt;<strong>CompleteTrans</strong>();<br></pre>
1231<p>Note: Savepoints are currently not supported.
1232</p><h2><a name="errorhandling"></a>Using Custom Error Handlers and PEAR_Error</h2>
1233<p>ADOdb supports PHP5 exceptions. Just include <i>adodb-exceptions.inc.php</i> and you can now
1234catch exceptions on errors as they occur.
1235</p><pre>   <b>include("../adodb-exceptions.inc.php");</b> <br> include("../adodb.inc.php");     <br>   try { <br>      $db = NewADOConnection("oci8://scott:bad-password@mytns/"); <br>    } catch (exception $e) { <br>       var_dump($e); <br>      adodb_backtrace($e-&gt;gettrace());<br> } <br></pre>
1236<p> ADOdb also provides two custom handlers which you can modify for your needs. The
1237  first one is in the <b>adodb-errorhandler.inc.php</b> file. This makes use of
1238  the standard PHP functions <a href="http://php.net/error_reporting">error_reporting</a>
1239  to control what error messages types to display, and <a href="http://php.net/trigger_error">trigger_error</a>
1240  which invokes the default PHP error handler.
1241</p><p> Including the above file will cause <i>trigger_error($errorstring,E_USER_ERROR)</i>
1242  to be called when<br>
1243  (a) Connect() or PConnect() fails, or <br>
1244  (b) a function that executes SQL statements such as Execute() or SelectLimit()
1245  has an error.<br>
1246  (c) GenID() appears to go into an infinite loop.
1247</p><p> The $errorstring is generated by ADOdb and will contain useful debugging information
1248  similar to the error.log data generated below. This file adodb-errorhandler.inc.php
1249  should be included before you create any ADOConnection objects.
1250</p><p> If you define error_reporting(0), no errors will be passed to the error handler.
1251  If you set error_reporting(E_ALL), all errors will be passed to the error handler.
1252  You still need to use <b>ini_set("display_errors", "0" or "1")</b> to control
1253  the display of errors.
1254</p><pre>&lt;?php<br><b>error_reporting(E_ALL); # pass any error messages triggered to error handler<br>include('adodb-errorhandler.inc.php');</b>
1255include('adodb.inc.php');
1256include('tohtml.inc.php');
1257$c = NewADOConnection('mysql');
1258$c-&gt;PConnect('localhost','root','','northwind');
1259$rs=$c-&gt;Execute('select * from productsz'); #invalid table productsz');
1260if ($rs) rs2html($rs);
1261?&gt;
1262</pre>
1263<p> If you want to log the error message, you can do so by defining the following
1264  optional constants ADODB_ERROR_LOG_TYPE and ADODB_ERROR_LOG_DEST. ADODB_ERROR_LOG_TYPE
1265  is the error log message type (see <a href="http://php.net/error_log">error_log</a>
1266  in the PHP manual). In this case we set it to 3, which means log to the file
1267  defined by the constant ADODB_ERROR_LOG_DEST.
1268</p><pre>&lt;?php<br><b>error_reporting(E_ALL); # report all errors<br>ini_set("display_errors", "0"); # but do not echo the errors<br>define('ADODB_ERROR_LOG_TYPE',3);<br>define('ADODB_ERROR_LOG_DEST','C:/errors.log');<br>include('adodb-errorhandler.inc.php');</b>
1269include('adodb.inc.php');
1270include('tohtml.inc.php');
1271
1272$c = NewADOConnection('mysql');
1273$c-&gt;PConnect('localhost','root','','northwind');
1274$rs=$c-&gt;Execute('select * from productsz'); ## invalid table productsz
1275if ($rs) rs2html($rs);
1276?&gt;
1277</pre>
1278The following message will be logged in the error.log file:
1279<pre>(2001-10-28 14:20:38) mysql error: [1146: Table 'northwind.productsz' doesn't exist] in<br> EXECUTE("select * from productsz")<br></pre>
1280<h3>PEAR_ERROR</h3>
1281The second error handler is <b>adodb-errorpear.inc.php</b>. This will create a
1282PEAR_Error derived object whenever an error occurs. The last PEAR_Error object
1283created can be retrieved using ADODB_Pear_Error().
1284<pre>&lt;?php<br><b>include('adodb-errorpear.inc.php');</b>
1285include('adodb.inc.php');
1286include('tohtml.inc.php');
1287$c = NewADOConnection('mysql');
1288$c-&gt;PConnect('localhost','root','','northwind');
1289$rs=$c-&gt;Execute('select * from productsz'); #invalid table productsz');
1290if ($rs) rs2html($rs);
1291else {
1292    <b>$e = ADODB_Pear_Error();<br> echo '&lt;p&gt;',$e-&gt;message,'&lt;/p&gt;';</b>
1293}
1294?&gt;
1295</pre>
1296<p> You can use a PEAR_Error derived class by defining the constant ADODB_PEAR_ERROR_CLASS
1297  before the adodb-errorpear.inc.php file is included. For easy debugging, you
1298  can set the default error handler in the beginning of the PHP script to PEAR_ERROR_DIE,
1299  which will cause an error message to be printed, then halt script execution:
1300</p><pre>include('PEAR.php');<br>PEAR::setErrorHandling('PEAR_ERROR_DIE');<br></pre>
1301<p> Note that we do not explicitly return a PEAR_Error object to you when an error
1302  occurs. We return false instead. You have to call ADODB_Pear_Error() to get
1303  the last error or use the PEAR_ERROR_DIE technique.
1304</p>
1305<h3>MetaError and MetaErrMsg</h3>
1306 <p>If you need error messages that work across multiple databases, then use <a href="#metaerror">MetaError()</a>, which returns a virtualized error number, based on PEAR DB's error number system, and <a href=<a href="#metaerrmsg">MetaErrMsg()</a>.
1307
1308<h4>Error Messages</h4>
1309<p>Error messages are outputted using the static method ADOConnnection::outp($msg,$newline=true).
1310  By default, it sends the messages to the client. You can override this to perform
1311  error-logging.
1312</p><h2><a name="dsn"></a> Data Source Names</h2>
1313<p>We now support connecting using PEAR style DSN's. A DSN is a connection string
1314  of the form:</p>
1315<p>$dsn = <i>"$driver://$username:$password@$hostname/$databasename"</i>;</p>
1316<p>An example:</p>
1317<pre>   $username = 'root';<br>   $password = '';<br>   $hostname = 'localhost';<br>   $databasename = 'xphplens';<br>   $driver = 'mysql';<br>   $dsn = "$driver://$username:$password@$hostname/$databasename"<br>   $db = NewADOConnection(); <br>   # DB::Connect($dsn) also works if you include 'adodb/adodb-pear.inc.php' at the top<br>   $rs = $db-&gt;query('select firstname,lastname from adoxyz');<br>   $cnt = 0;<br>   while ($arr = $rs-&gt;fetchRow()) {<br>       print_r($arr); print "&lt;br&gt;";<br>   }</pre>
1318   <p></p>
1319<p>   <a href="#dsnsupport">More info and connection examples</a> on the DSN format.
1320
1321</p><h2><a name="pear"></a>PEAR Compatibility</h2>
1322  We support DSN's (see above), and the following functions:
1323 <pre><b> DB_Common</b>
1324    query - returns PEAR_Error on error
1325    limitQuery - return PEAR_Error on error
1326    prepare - does not return PEAR_Error on error
1327    execute - does not return PEAR_Error on error
1328    setFetchMode - supports ASSOC and ORDERED
1329    errorNative
1330    quote
1331    nextID
1332    disconnect
1333   
1334    getOne
1335    getAssoc
1336    getRow
1337    getCol
1338   
1339<b> DB_Result</b>
1340    numRows - returns -1 if not supported
1341    numCols
1342    fetchInto - does not support passing of fetchmode
1343    fetchRows - does not support passing of fetchmode
1344    free
1345</pre>
1346<h2><a name="caching"></a>Caching of Recordsets</h2>
1347<p>ADOdb now supports caching of recordsets in the file system using the CacheExecute( ), CachePageExecute(
1348  ) and CacheSelectLimit( ) functions. There are similar to the non-cache functions,
1349  except that they take a new first parameter, $secs2cache.
1350</p><p> An example:
1351</p><pre><b>include</b>('adodb.inc.php'); # load code common to ADOdb<br>$ADODB_CACHE_DIR = '/usr/ADODB_cache';<br>$<font color="#663300">conn</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('mysql');  # create a connection<br>$<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;PConnect('localhost','userid','','agora');# connect to MySQL, agora db<br><font>$<font color="#663300">sql</font> = 'select CustomerName, CustomerID from customers';<br>$<font color="#663300">rs</font> = $<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;CacheExecute(15,$sql);</font></pre>
1352<p><font> The first parameter is the number of seconds to cache
1353  the query. Subsequent calls to that query will used the cached version stored
1354  in $ADODB_CACHE_DIR. To force a query to execute and flush the cache, call CacheExecute()
1355  with the first parameter set to zero. Alternatively, use the CacheFlush($sql)
1356  call. </font></p>
1357<p><font>For the sake of security, we recommend you set <i>register_globals=off</i> 
1358  in php.ini if you are using $ADODB_CACHE_DIR.</font></p>
1359<p>In ADOdb 1.80 onwards, the secs2cache parameter is optional in CacheSelectLimit()
1360  and CacheExecute(). If you leave it out, it will use the $connection-&gt;cacheSecs
1361  parameter, which defaults to 60 minutes. The following are equivalent:
1362  <pre>
1363  # (1)
1364  $rs = $db->SelectLimit(30, 'select * from table', 10);
1365 
1366  # (2)
1367  $db->cacheSsecs = 30;
1368  $rs = $db->SelectLimit('select * from table', 10);
1369  </pre>
1370</p><pre>   $conn-&gt;Connect(...);<br> $conn-&gt;cacheSecs = 3600*24; # cache 24 hours<br> $rs = $conn-&gt;CacheExecute('select * from table');<br></pre>
1371<p>Please note that magic_quotes_runtime should be turned off. Do not change $ADODB_FETCH_MODE (or SetFetchMode)
1372  as the cached recordset will use the $ADODB_FETCH_MODE set when the query was executed. <font>
1373 
1374  <a name="memcache">
1375 <h3>MemCache support</h3>
1376<p>You can also share cached recordsets on a memcache server. The memcache API supports one or more pooled hosts. Only if none of the pooled servers can be contacted will a connect error be generated.
1377Example below:
1378<pre>
1379$db = NewADOConnection($driver);
1380$db->memCache = true;
1381$db->memCacheHost = array($ip1, $ip2, $ip3); /// $db->memCacheHost = $ip1; will work too
1382$db->memCachePort = 11211; /// this is default memCache port
1383$db->memCacheCompress = false; /// Use 'true' to store the item compressed (uses zlib)
1384
1385$db->Connect(...);
1386$db->CacheExecute($sql);
1387</pre>
1388<p>More info on memcache can be found at <a href=http://www.danga.com/memcached/>http://www.danga.com/memcached/</a>.
1389
1390<a name="cacheapi">
1391<h3>Caching API</h3>
1392<p> There is also a caching API since 4.99/5.05. Two implementations of the API are already available  providing file and memcache support.
1393 <p>The new API for creating your custom caching class uses 2 globals:
1394  <ul><li>$ADODB_CACHE_CLASS: name of caching class
1395  <li>$ADODB_CACHE: instance of $ADODB_CACHE_CLASS
1396  </ul>
1397
1398<pre>
1399include "/path/to/adodb.inc.php";
1400$ADODB_CACHE_CLASS = 'MyCacheClass';
1401
1402class MyCacheClass extends ADODB_Cache_File
1403{
1404    var $createdir = false; // do not set this to true unless you use temp directories in cache path
1405    function writecache($filename, $contents,$debug=false){...}
1406    function &readcache($filename, &$err, $secs2cache, $rsClass){ ...}
1407     :
1408}
1409
1410$DB = NewADOConnection($driver);
1411$DB->Connect(...);  ## MyCacheClass created here and stored in $ADODB_CACHE global variable.
1412
1413$data = $rs->CacheGetOne($sql); ## MyCacheClass is used here for caching...
1414</pre>
1415<p> 
1416
1417
1418<h2><a name="pivot"></a>Pivot Tables</h2>
1419</font> </p><p><font>Since ADOdb 2.30, we support the generation of
1420SQL to create pivot tables, also known as cross-tabulations. For further explanation
1421read this DevShed <a href="http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/MySQL/MySQLWiz/">Cross-Tabulation
1422tutorial</a>. We assume that your database supports the SQL case-when expression. </font></p>
1423<font> 
1424<p>In this example, we will use the Northwind database from Microsoft. In the
1425  database, we have a products table, and we want to analyze this table by <i>suppliers
1426  versus product categories</i>. We will place the suppliers on each row, and
1427  pivot on categories. So from the table on the left, we generate the pivot-table
1428  on the right:</p>
1429</font>
1430<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
1431  <tbody><tr>
1432    <td>
1433      <table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="142">
1434        <tbody><tr>
1435          <td><i>Supplier</i></td>
1436          <td><i>Category</i></td>
1437        </tr>
1438        <tr>
1439          <td>supplier1</td>
1440          <td>category1</td>
1441        </tr>
1442        <tr>
1443          <td>supplier2</td>
1444                    <td>category1</td>
1445        </tr>
1446        <tr>
1447                    <td>supplier2</td>
1448          <td>category2</td>
1449        </tr>
1450      </tbody></table>
1451    </td>
1452    <td> <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">--&gt;</font></td>
1453    <td>
1454      <table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
1455        <tbody><tr>
1456          <td>&nbsp;</td>
1457          <td><i>category1</i></td>
1458          <td><i>category2</i></td>
1459          <td><i>total</i></td>
1460        </tr>
1461        <tr>
1462          <td><i>supplier1</i></td>
1463          <td align="right">1</td>
1464          <td align="right">0</td>
1465          <td align="right">1</td>
1466        </tr>
1467        <tr>
1468          <td><i>supplier2</i></td>
1469          <td align="right">1</td>
1470          <td align="right">1</td>
1471          <td align="right">2</td>
1472        </tr>
1473      </tbody></table>
1474    </td>
1475  </tr>
1476</tbody></table>
1477<font> 
1478</font><p><font>The following code will generate the SQL for a cross-tabulation:
1479</font></p><pre><font># Query the main "product" table<br># Set the rows to SupplierName<br># and the columns to the values of Categories<br># and define the joins to link to lookup tables <br># "categories" and "suppliers"<br>#<br> include "adodb/pivottable.inc.php";<br> $sql = PivotTableSQL(<br>  $gDB,                                      # adodb connection<br>   'products p ,categories c ,suppliers s',   # tables<br> 'SupplierName',                             # rows (multiple fields allowed)<br>    'CategoryName',                            # column to pivot on <br>    'p.CategoryID = c.CategoryID and s.SupplierID= p.SupplierID' # joins/where<br>);<br></font></pre>
1480 
1481<p><font> This will generate the following SQL:</font></p>
1482<p><code><font size="2">SELECT SupplierName, <br>
1483  SUM(CASE WHEN CategoryName='Beverages' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "Beverages",
1484  <br>
1485  SUM(CASE WHEN CategoryName='Condiments' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "Condiments",
1486  <br>
1487  SUM(CASE WHEN CategoryName='Confections' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "Confections",
1488  <br>
1489  SUM(CASE WHEN CategoryName='Dairy Products' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "Dairy
1490  Products", <br>
1491  SUM(CASE WHEN CategoryName='Grains/Cereals' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "Grains/Cereals",
1492  <br>
1493  SUM(CASE WHEN CategoryName='Meat/Poultry' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "Meat/Poultry",
1494  <br>
1495  SUM(CASE WHEN CategoryName='Produce' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "Produce",
1496  <br>
1497  SUM(CASE WHEN CategoryName='Seafood' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS "Seafood",
1498  <br>
1499  SUM(1) as Total <br>
1500  FROM products p ,categories c ,suppliers s WHERE p.CategoryID = c.CategoryID
1501  and s.SupplierID= p.SupplierID <br>
1502  GROUP BY SupplierName</font></code></p>
1503<p> You can also pivot on <i>numerical columns</i> and <i>generate totals</i>
1504    by using ranges. <font>This code was revised in ADODB 2.41
1505    and is not backward compatible.</font> The second example shows this:</p>
1506<pre> $sql = PivotTableSQL(<br>     $gDB,                                       # adodb connection<br>  'products p ,categories c ,suppliers s',    # tables<br>    'SupplierName',                              #<font> rows (multiple fields allowed)</font>
1507   array(                                       # column ranges
1508    ' 0 '      =&gt; 'UnitsInStock &lt;= 0',
1509    "1 to 5"   =&gt; '0 &lt; UnitsInStock and UnitsInStock &lt;= 5',
1510    "6 to 10"  =&gt; '5 &lt; UnitsInStock and UnitsInStock &lt;= 10',
1511    "11 to 15" =&gt; '10 &lt; UnitsInStock and UnitsInStock &lt;= 15',
1512    "16+"      =&gt; '15 &lt; UnitsInStock'
1513    ),
1514    ' p.CategoryID = c.CategoryID and s.SupplierID= p.SupplierID', # joins/where
1515    'UnitsInStock',                             # sum this field
1516    'Sum '                                      # sum label prefix
1517);
1518</pre>
1519<p>Which generates: </p>
1520<p> <code> <font size="2">SELECT SupplierName, <br>
1521    SUM(CASE WHEN UnitsInStock &lt;= 0 THEN UnitsInStock ELSE 0 END) AS "Sum
1522    0 ", <br>
1523    SUM(CASE WHEN 0 &lt; UnitsInStock and UnitsInStock &lt;= 5 THEN UnitsInStock
1524    ELSE 0 END) AS "Sum 1 to 5",<br>
1525    SUM(CASE WHEN 5 &lt; UnitsInStock and UnitsInStock &lt;= 10 THEN UnitsInStock
1526    ELSE 0 END) AS "Sum 6 to 10",<br>
1527    SUM(CASE WHEN 10 &lt; UnitsInStock and UnitsInStock &lt;= 15 THEN UnitsInStock
1528    ELSE 0 END) AS "Sum 11 to 15", <br>
1529    SUM(CASE WHEN 15 &lt; UnitsInStock THEN UnitsInStock ELSE 0 END) AS "Sum
1530    16+", <br>
1531    SUM(UnitsInStock) AS "Sum UnitsInStock", <br>
1532    SUM(1) as Total,<br>
1533    FROM products p ,categories c ,suppliers s WHERE p.CategoryID = c.CategoryID
1534    and s.SupplierID= p.SupplierID <br>
1535    GROUP BY SupplierName</font></code><font size="2"><br>
1536    </font> </p>
1537<font><hr />
1538<h1>Class Reference<a name="ref"></a></h1>
1539<p>Function parameters with [ ] around them are optional.</p>
1540</font>
1541<h2>Global Variables</h2>
1542<h3><font><a name="adodb_countrecs"></a></font>$ADODB_COUNTRECS</h3>
1543<p>If the database driver API does not support counting the number of records
1544    returned in a SELECT statement, the function RecordCount() is emulated when
1545    the global variable $ADODB_COUNTRECS is set to true, which is the default.
1546    We emulate this by buffering the records, which can take up large amounts
1547    of memory for big recordsets. Set this variable to false for the best performance.
1548    This variable is checked every time a query is executed, so you can selectively
1549    choose which recordsets to count.</p>
1550<h3><font><a name="adodb_cache_dir"></a>$ADODB_CACHE_DIR</font></h3>
1551<font> 
1552<p>If you are using recordset caching, this is the directory to save your recordsets
1553  in. Define this before you call any caching functions such as CacheExecute(
1554  ). We recommend setting <i>register_globals=off</i> in php.ini if you use this
1555  feature for security reasons.</p>
1556<p>If you are using Unix and apache, you might need to set your cache directory
1557  permissions to something similar to the following:</p>
1558</font>
1559<p>chown -R apache /path/to/adodb/cache<br>
1560  chgrp -R apache /path/to/adodb/cache </p>
1561<h3><font><a name="adodb_ansi_padding_off"></a>$ADODB_ANSI_PADDING_OFF</font></h3>
1562<p><font>Determines whether to right trim CHAR fields (and also VARCHAR for ibase/firebird).
1563Set to true to trim. Default is false. Currently works for oci8po, ibase and firebird
1564drivers. Added in ADOdb 4.01.
1565</font></p><h3><font><a name="adodb_lang"></a>$ADODB_LANG</font></h3>
1566<p><font>Determines the language used in MetaErrorMsg(). The default is 'en', for English.
1567To find out what languages are supported, see the files
1568in adodb/lang/adodb-$lang.inc.php, where $lang is the supported langauge.
1569</font></p><h3><font><a name="adodb_fetch_mode"></a>$ADODB_FETCH_MODE</font></h3>
1570<p><font>This is a global variable that determines how arrays are retrieved by recordsets.
1571  The recordset saves this value on creation (eg. in Execute( ) or SelectLimit(
1572  )), and any subsequent changes to $ADODB_FETCH_MODE have no affect on existing
1573  recordsets, only on recordsets created in the future.</font></p>
1574 <p><font>The following constants are defined:</font></p>
1575 <p><font>define('ADODB_FETCH_DEFAULT',0);<br>
1576  define('ADODB_FETCH_NUM',1);<br>
1577  define('ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC',2);<br>
1578  define('ADODB_FETCH_BOTH',3); </font></p>
1579<font> 
1580</font><p><font> An example:
1581</font></p><pre><font>  $ADODB_<b>FETCH_MODE</b> = ADODB_FETCH_NUM;<br> $rs1 = $db-&gt;Execute('select * from table');<br>  $ADODB_<b>FETCH_MODE</b> = ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC;<br>   $rs2 = $db-&gt;Execute('select * from table');<br>  print_r($rs1-&gt;fields); # shows <i>array([0]=&gt;'v0',[1] =&gt;'v1')</i>
1582    print_r($rs2-&gt;fields); # shows <i>array(['col1']=&gt;'v0',['col2'] =&gt;'v1')</i>
1583</font></pre>
1584<p><font> As you can see in the above example, both recordsets store and use different
1585    fetch modes based on the $ADODB_FETCH_MODE setting when the recordset was
1586    created by Execute().</font></p>
1587<p><font>If no fetch mode is predefined, the fetch mode defaults to ADODB_FETCH_DEFAULT.
1588    The behaviour of this default mode varies from driver to driver, so do not
1589    rely on ADODB_FETCH_DEFAULT. For portability, we recommend sticking to ADODB_FETCH_NUM
1590    or ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC. Many drivers do not support ADODB_FETCH_BOTH.</font></p>
1591<p><font><strong>SetFetchMode Function</strong></font></p>
1592<p><font>If you have multiple connection objects, and want to have different fetch modes for each
1593connection, then use <a href="#setfetchmode">SetFetchMode</a>.
1594    Once this function is called for a connection object, that connection object
1595    will ignore the global variable $ADODB_FETCH_MODE and will use the internal
1596    fetchMode property exclusively.</font></p>
1597<pre><font> $db-&gt;SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_NUM);<br>  $rs1 = $db-&gt;Execute('select * from table');<br>  $db-&gt;SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC);<br>    $rs2 = $db-&gt;Execute('select * from table');<br>  print_r($rs1-&gt;fields); # shows <i>array([0]=&gt;'v0',[1] =&gt;'v1')</i>
1598    print_r($rs2-&gt;fields); # shows <i>array(['col1']=&gt;'v0',['col2'] =&gt;'v1')</i></font></pre>
1599<p><font>To retrieve the previous fetch mode, you can use check the $db-&gt;fetchMode
1600    property, or use the return value of SetFetchMode( ).
1601</font></p><p><font><strong><a name="adodb_assoc_case"></a>ADODB_ASSOC_CASE</strong></font></p>
1602<p><font>You can control the associative fetch case for certain drivers which behave
1603    differently. For the sybase, oci8po, mssql, odbc and ibase drivers and all
1604    drivers derived from them, ADODB_ASSOC_CASE will by default generate recordsets
1605    where the field name keys are lower-cased. Use the constant ADODB_ASSOC_CASE
1606    to change the case of the keys. There are 3 possible values:</font></p>
1607<p><font>0 = assoc lowercase field names. $rs-&gt;fields['orderid']<br>
1608    1 = assoc uppercase field names. $rs-&gt;fields['ORDERID']<br>
1609    2 = use native-case field names. $rs-&gt;fields['OrderID'] -- this is the
1610    default since ADOdb 2.90</font></p>
1611<p><font>To use it, declare it before you incldue adodb.inc.php.</font></p>
1612<p><font>define('ADODB_ASSOC_CASE', 2); # use native-case for ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC<br>
1613    include('adodb.inc.php'); </font></p>
1614<h3><font><a name="force_type"></a>$ADODB_FORCE_TYPE</font></h3>
1615<p><font>See the <a href="#ADODB_FORCE_TYPE">GetUpdateSQL tutorial</a>.
1616</font></p>
1617<h3><font><a name="adodb_auto_quote"></a>$ADODB_QUOTE_FIELDNAMES</font></h3>
1618<p><font>Auto-quotes field names when using AutoExecute() when set to true. </font>
1619<p>&nbsp;</p>
1620<hr />
1621<h2><font>ADOConnection<a name="adoconnection"></a></font></h2>
1622<p><font>Object that performs the connection to the database, executes SQL statements
1623    and has a set of utility functions for standardising the format of SQL statements
1624    for issues such as concatenation and date formats.</font></p>
1625<h3><font>ADOConnection Fields</font></h3>
1626<p><font><b>databaseType</b>: Name of the database system we are connecting to. Eg.
1627    <b>odbc</b> or <b>mssql</b> or <b>mysql</b>.</font></p>
1628<p><font><b>dataProvider</b>: The underlying mechanism used to connect to the database.
1629    Normally set to <b>native</b>, unless using <b>odbc</b> or <b>ado</b>.</font></p>
1630<p><font><b>host: </b>Name of server or data source name (DSN) to connect to.</font></p>
1631<p><font><b>database</b>: Name of the database or to connect to. If ado is used, it
1632    will hold the ado data provider.</font></p>
1633<p><font><b>user</b>: Login id to connect to database. Password is not saved for security
1634    reasons.</font></p>
1635<p><font><b>raiseErrorFn</b>: Allows you to define an error handling function. See adodb-errorhandler.inc.php
1636    for an example.</font></p>
1637<p><font><b>debug</b>: Set to <i>true</i> to make debug statements to appear.</font></p>
1638<p><font><b>concat_operator</b>: Set to '+' or '||' normally. The operator used to concatenate
1639    strings in SQL. Used by the <b><a href="#concat">Concat</a></b> function.</font></p>
1640<p><font><b>fmtDate</b>: The format used by the <b><a href="#dbdate">DBDate</a></b> 
1641    function to send dates to the database. is '#Y-m-d#' for Microsoft Access,
1642    and ''Y-m-d'' for MySQL.</font></p>
1643<p><font><b>fmtTimeStamp: </b>The format used by the <b><a href="#dbtimestamp">DBTimeStamp</a></b> 
1644    function to send timestamps to the database. </font></p>
1645<p><font><b>true</b>: The value used to represent true.Eg. '.T.'. for Foxpro, '1' for
1646    Microsoft SQL.</font></p>
1647<p><font><b>false: </b> The value used to represent false. Eg. '.F.'. for Foxpro, '0'
1648    for Microsoft SQL.</font></p>
1649<p><font><b>replaceQuote</b>: The string used to escape quotes. Eg. double single-quotes
1650    for Microsoft SQL, and backslash-quote for MySQL. Used by <a href="#qstr">qstr</a>.</font></p>
1651<p><font><b>autoCommit</b>: indicates whether automatic commit is enabled. Default is
1652    true.</font></p>
1653<p><font><b>charSet</b>: set the default charset to use. Currently only interbase/firebird supports
1654    this.</font></p>
1655<p><font><b>dialect</b>: set the default sql dialect to use. Currently only interbase/firebird
1656    supports this.</font></p>
1657    <p><font><b>role</b>: set the role. Currently only interbase/firebird
1658    supports this.</font></p>
1659<p><font><b>metaTablesSQL</b>: SQL statement to return a list of available tables. Eg.
1660    <i>SHOW TABLES</i> in MySQL.</font></p>
1661<p><font><b>genID</b>: The latest id generated by GenID() if supported by the database.</font></p>
1662<p><font><b>cacheSecs</b>: The number of seconds to cache recordsets if CacheExecute()
1663    or CacheSelectLimit() omit the $secs2cache parameter. Defaults to 60 minutes.</font></p>
1664<p><font><b>sysDate</b>: String that holds the name of the database function to call
1665    to get the current date. Useful for inserts and updates.</font></p>
1666<p><font><b>sysTimeStamp</b>: String that holds the name of the database function to
1667    call to get the current timestamp/datetime value.</font></p>
1668<p><font><b>leftOuter</b>: String that holds operator for left outer join, if known.
1669    Otherwise set to false.</font></p>
1670<p><font><b>rightOuter</b>: String that holds operator for left outer join, if known.
1671    Otherwise set to false.</font></p>
1672<p><font><b>ansiOuter</b>: Boolean that if true indicates that ANSI style outer joins
1673    are permitted. Eg. <i>select * from table1 left join table2 on p1=p2.</i></font></p>
1674<p><font><b>connectSID</b>: Boolean that indicates whether to treat the $database parameter
1675    in connects as the SID for the oci8 driver. Defaults to false. Useful for
1676    Oracle 8.0.5 and earlier.</font></p>
1677<p><font><b>autoRollback</b>: Persistent connections are auto-rollbacked in PConnect(
1678    ) if this is set to true. Default is false.</font></p>
1679<hr />
1680<h3><font>ADOConnection Main Functions</font></h3>
1681<p><font><b>ADOConnection( )</b></font></p>
1682<p><font>Constructor function. Do not call this directly. Use ADONewConnection( ) instead.</font></p>
1683<p><font><b>Connect<a name="connect"></a>($host,[$user],[$password],[$database])</b></font></p>
1684<p><font>Non-persistent connect to data source or server $<b>host</b>, using userid
1685    $<b>user </b>and password $<b>password</b>. If the server supports multiple
1686    databases, connect to database $<b>database</b>. </font></p>
1687<p><font>Returns true/false depending on connection success. Since 4.23, null is returned if the extension is not loaded.</font></p>
1688<p><font>ADO Note: If you are using a Microsoft ADO and not OLEDB, you can set the $database
1689    parameter to the OLEDB data provider you are using.</font></p>
1690<p><font>PostgreSQL: An alternative way of connecting to the database is to pass the
1691    standard PostgreSQL connection string in the first parameter $host, and the
1692    other parameters will be ignored.</font></p>
1693<p><font>For Oracle and Oci8, there are two ways to connect. First is to use the TNS
1694    name defined in your local tnsnames.ora (or ONAMES or HOSTNAMES). Place the
1695    name in the $database field, and set the $host field to false. Alternatively,
1696    set $host to the server, and $database to the database SID, this bypassed
1697    tnsnames.ora.
1698</font></p><p><font>Examples:
1699</font></p><pre><font> # $oraname in tnsnames.ora/ONAMES/HOSTNAMES<br> $conn-&gt;Connect(false, 'scott', 'tiger', $oraname); <br> $conn-&gt;Connect('server:1521', 'scott', 'tiger', 'ServiceName'); # bypass tnsnames.ora</font></pre>
1700<p><font>There are many examples of connecting to a database.
1701See  <a href="#connect_ex">Connection Examples</a> for many examples.
1702
1703</font></p><p><font><b>PConnect<a name="pconnect"></a>($host,[$user],[$password],[$database])</b></font></p>
1704<p><font>Persistent connect to data source or server $<b>host</b>, using userid $<b>user</b> 
1705    and password $<b>password</b>. If the server supports multiple databases,
1706    connect to database $<b>database</b>.</font></p>
1707<p><font>We now perform a rollback on persistent connection for selected databases since
1708    2.21, as advised in the PHP manual. See change log or source code for which
1709    databases are affected.
1710</font></p><p><font>Returns true/false depending on connection. Since 4.23, 0 is returned if the extension is not loaded.
1711See Connect( ) above for more info.</font></p>
1712<p><font>Since ADOdb 2.21, we also support autoRollback. If you set:</font></p>
1713 
1714<pre> $conn = &amp;NewADOConnection('mysql');<br> $conn-&gt;autoRollback = true; # default is false<br> $conn-&gt;PConnect(...); # rollback here</pre>
1715<p> Then when doing a persistent connection with PConnect( ), ADOdb will
1716  perform a rollback first. This is because it is documented that PHP is
1717  not guaranteed to rollback existing failed transactions when
1718  persistent connections are used. This is implemented in Oracle,
1719  MySQL, PgSQL, MSSQL, ODBC currently.
1720</p><p>Since ADOdb 3.11, you can force non-persistent
1721connections even if PConnect is called by defining the constant
1722ADODB_NEVER_PERSIST  before you call PConnect.
1723</p><p>
1724Since 4.23, null is returned if the extension is not loaded.
1725</p><p><b>NConnect<a name="nconnect"></a>($host,[$user],[$password],[$database])</b></p>
1726<p>Always force a new connection. In contrast, PHP sometimes reuses connections
1727    when you use Connect() or PConnect(). Currently works only on mysql (PHP 4.3.0
1728    or later), postgresql and oci8-derived drivers. For other drivers, NConnect() works like
1729    Connect().</p>
1730<p><font><b>IsConnected( )<a name="isconnected"></a></b></font></p>
1731<p>
1732<font>Returns true if connected to database. Added in 4.53.
1733
1734</font></p><p><font><b>Execute<a name="execute"></a>($sql,$inputarr=false)</b></font></p>
1735<p><font>Execute SQL statement $<b>sql</b> and return derived class of ADORecordSet
1736    if successful. Note that a record set is always returned on success, even
1737    if we are executing an insert or update statement. You can also pass in $sql a statement prepared
1738    in <a href="#prepare">Prepare()</a>.</font></p>
1739<p><font>Returns derived class of ADORecordSet. Eg. if connecting via mysql, then ADORecordSet_mysql
1740    would be returned. False is returned if there was an error in executing the
1741    sql.</font></p>
1742<p><font>The $inputarr parameter can be used for binding variables to parameters. Below
1743    is an Oracle example:</font></p>
1744<pre><font> $conn-&gt;Execute("SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE COND=:val", array('val'=&gt; $val));<br> </font></pre>
1745<p><font>Another example, using ODBC,which uses the ? convention:</font></p>
1746<pre><font>  $conn-&gt;Execute("SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE COND=?", array($val));<br></font></pre>
1747<font><a name="binding"></a>
1748<i>Binding variables</i></font><p>
1749<font>Variable binding speeds the compilation and caching of SQL statements, leading
1750to higher performance. Currently Oracle, Interbase and ODBC supports variable binding.
1751Interbase/ODBC style ? binding is emulated in databases that do not support binding.
1752Note that you do not have to quote strings if you use binding.
1753</font></p><p><font> Variable binding in the odbc, interbase and oci8po drivers.
1754</font></p><pre><font>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute('select * from table where val=?', array('10'));<br></font></pre>
1755<font>Variable binding in the oci8 driver:
1756</font><pre><font>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute('select name from table where val=:key', <br>  array('key' =&gt; 10));<br></font></pre>
1757<font><a name="bulkbind"></a>
1758<i>Bulk binding</i>
1759</font><p><font>Since ADOdb 3.80, we support bulk binding in Execute(), in which you pass in a 2-dimensional array to
1760be bound to an INSERT/UPDATE or DELETE statement.
1761</font></p><pre><font>$arr = array(<br> array('Ahmad',32),<br>  array('Zulkifli', 24),<br>  array('Rosnah', 21)<br> );<br>$ok = $db-&gt;Execute('insert into table (name,age) values (?,?)',$arr);<br></font></pre>
1762<p><font>This provides very high performance as the SQL statement is prepared first.
1763The prepared statement is executed repeatedly for each array row until all rows are completed,
1764or until the first error. Very useful for importing data.
1765
1766</font></p><p><font><b>CacheExecute<a name="cacheexecute"></a>([$secs2cache,]$sql,$inputarr=false)</b></font></p>
1767<p><font>Similar to Execute, except that the recordset is cached for $secs2cache seconds
1768    in the $ADODB_CACHE_DIR directory, and $inputarr only accepts 1-dimensional arrays.
1769    If CacheExecute() is called again with the same $sql, $inputarr,
1770    and also the same database, same userid, and the cached recordset
1771    has not expired, the cached recordset is returned.
1772</font></p><pre><font>  include('adodb.inc.php'); <br>  include('tohtml.inc.php');<br>  $ADODB_<b>CACHE_DIR</b> = '/usr/local/ADOdbcache';<br>  $conn = &amp;ADONewConnection('mysql'); <br>  $conn-&gt;PConnect('localhost','userid','password','database');<br>  $rs = $conn-&gt;<b>CacheExecute</b>(15, 'select * from table'); # cache 15 secs<br>  rs2html($rs); /* recordset to html table */  <br></font></pre>
1773<p><font> Alternatively, since ADOdb 1.80, the $secs2cache parameter is optional:</font></p>
1774<pre><font> $conn-&gt;Connect(...);<br>     $conn-&gt;cacheSecs = 3600*24; // cache 24 hours<br>    $rs = $conn-&gt;CacheExecute('select * from table');<br></font></pre>
1775<font>If $secs2cache is omitted, we use the value
1776in $connection-&gt;cacheSecs (default is 3600 seconds, or 1 hour). Use CacheExecute()
1777only with SELECT statements.
1778</font><p><font>Performance note: I have done some benchmarks and found that they vary so greatly
1779    that it's better to talk about when caching is of benefit. When your database
1780    server is <i>much slower </i>than your Web server or the database is <i>very
1781    overloaded </i>then ADOdb's caching is good because it reduces the load on
1782    your database server. If your database server is lightly loaded or much faster
1783    than your Web server, then caching could actually reduce performance. </font></p>
1784<p><font><b>ExecuteCursor<a name="executecursor"></a>($sql,$cursorName='rs',$parameters=false)</b></font></p>
1785<p><font>Execute an Oracle stored procedure, and returns an Oracle REF cursor variable as
1786    a regular ADOdb recordset. Does not work with any other database except oci8.
1787    Thanks to Robert Tuttle for the design.
1788</font></p><pre><font>    $db = ADONewConnection("oci8"); <br>    $db-&gt;Connect("foo.com:1521", "uid", "pwd", "FOO"); <br>    $rs = $db-&gt;ExecuteCursor("begin :cursorvar := getdata(:param1); end;", <br>                  'cursorvar',<br>                    array('param1'=&gt;10)); <br>    # $rs is now just like any other ADOdb recordset object<br>    rs2html($rs);</font></pre>
1789<p><font>ExecuteCursor() is a helper function that does the following internally:
1790</font></p><pre><font>  $stmt = $db-&gt;Prepare("begin :cursorvar := getdata(:param1); end;", true); <br>   $db-&gt;Parameter($stmt, $cur, 'cursorvar', false, -1, OCI_B_CURSOR);<br>   $rs = $db-&gt;Execute($stmt,$bindarr);<br></font></pre>
1791<p><font>ExecuteCursor only accepts 1 out parameter. So if you have 2 out parameters, use:
1792</font></p><pre><font>  $vv = 'A%';<br> $stmt = $db-&gt;PrepareSP("BEGIN list_tabs(:crsr,:tt); END;");<br>  $db-&gt;OutParameter($stmt, $cur, 'crsr', -1, OCI_B_CURSOR);<br>    $db-&gt;OutParameter($stmt, $vv, 'tt', 32); # return varchar(32)<br>    $arr = $db-&gt;GetArray($stmt);<br> print_r($arr);<br>  echo " val = $vv"; ## outputs 'TEST'<br></font></pre>
1793<font>for the following PL/SQL:
1794</font><pre><font>  TYPE TabType IS REF CURSOR RETURN TAB%ROWTYPE;<br><br>  PROCEDURE list_tabs(tabcursor IN OUT TabType,tablenames IN OUT VARCHAR) IS<br>  BEGIN<br>       OPEN tabcursor FOR SELECT * FROM TAB WHERE tname LIKE tablenames;<br>       tablenames := 'TEST';<br>   END list_tabs;<br></font></pre>
1795<p><font><b>SelectLimit<a name="selectlimit"></a>($sql,$numrows=-1,$offset=-1,$inputarr=false)</b></font></p>
1796<p><font>Returns a recordset if successful. Returns false otherwise. Performs a select
1797    statement, simulating PostgreSQL's SELECT statement, LIMIT $numrows OFFSET
1798    $offset clause.</font></p>
1799<p><font>In PostgreSQL, SELECT * FROM TABLE LIMIT 3 will return the first 3 records
1800    only. The equivalent is <code>$connection-&gt;SelectLimit('SELECT * FROM TABLE',3)</code>.
1801    This functionality is simulated for databases that do not possess this feature.</font></p>
1802<p><font>And SELECT * FROM TABLE LIMIT 3 OFFSET 2 will return records 3, 4 and 5 (eg.
1803    after record 2, return 3 rows). The equivalent in ADOdb is <code>$connection-&gt;SelectLimit('SELECT
1804    * FROM TABLE',3,2)</code>.</font></p>
1805<p><font>Note that this is the <i>opposite</i> of MySQL's LIMIT clause. You can also
1806    set <code>$connection-&gt;SelectLimit('SELECT * FROM TABLE',-1,10)</code> to
1807    get rows 11 to the last row.</font></p>
1808<p><font>The last parameter $inputarr is for databases that support variable binding
1809    such as Oracle oci8. This substantially reduces SQL compilation overhead.
1810    Below is an Oracle example:</font></p>
1811<pre><font> $conn-&gt;SelectLimit("SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE COND=:val", 100,-1,array('val'=&gt; $val));<br> </font></pre>
1812<p><font>The oci8po driver (oracle portable driver) uses the more standard bind variable
1813    of ?:
1814</font></p><pre><font> $conn-&gt;SelectLimit("SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE COND=?", 100,-1,array('val'=&gt; $val));<br></font></pre>
1815<p><font> 
1816</font></p><p><font>Ron Wilson reports that SelectLimit does not work with UNIONs.
1817</font></p><p><font><b>CacheSelectLimit<a name="cacheselectlimit"></a>([$secs2cache,] $sql, $numrows=-1,$offset=-1,$inputarr=false)</b></font></p>
1818<p><font>Similar to SelectLimit, except that the recordset returned is cached for $secs2cache
1819    seconds in the $ADODB_CACHE_DIR directory. </font></p>
1820<p><font>Since 1.80, $secs2cache has been optional, and you can define the caching time
1821    in $connection-&gt;cacheSecs.</font></p>
1822 
1823<pre><font> $conn-&gt;Connect(...);<br>   $conn-&gt;cacheSecs = 3600*24; // cache 24 hours<br>  $rs = $conn-&gt;CacheSelectLimit('select * from table',10);</font></pre>
1824<font> 
1825</font><p><font><b>CacheFlush<a name="cacheflush"></a>($sql=false,$inputarr=false)</b></font></p>
1826<p><font>Flush (delete) any cached recordsets for the SQL statement $sql in $ADODB_CACHE_DIR.
1827</font></p><p><font>If no parameter is passed in, then all adodb_*.cache files are deleted.
1828</font></p>
1829  <p>CacheSelectLimit() rewrites the SQL query, so you won't be able to pass the SQL to CacheFlush. In this case,
1830   to flush the cached SQL recordset returned by CacheSelectLimit(), set $secs2cache to -1:
1831<pre>
1832    $db->CacheSelectLimit(-1, $sql, $nrows);
1833</pre>
1834<p><font> If you want to flush all cached recordsets manually, execute the following
1835    PHP code (works only under Unix): <br>
1836    <code> &nbsp; system("rm -f `find ".$ADODB_CACHE_DIR." -name
1837    adodb_*.cache`");</code></font></p>
1838<p><font>For general cleanup of all expired files, you should use <a href="http://www.superscripts.com/tutorial/crontab.html">crontab</a> 
1839    on Unix, or at.exe on Windows, and a shell script similar to the following:<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"><br>
1840    #------------------------------------------------------ <br>
1841    # This particular example deletes files in the TMPPATH <br>
1842    # directory with the string ".cache" in their name that <br>
1843    # are more than 7 days old. <br>
1844    #------------------------------------------------------ <br>
1845    AGED=7 <br>
1846    find ${TMPPATH} -mtime +$AGED | grep "\.cache" | xargs rm -f <br>
1847    </font> </font></p>
1848<p><font><b>MetaError<a name="metaerror"></a>($errno=false)</b></font></p>
1849<p><font>Returns a virtualized error number, based on PEAR DB's error number system. You might
1850need to include adodb-error.inc.php before you call this function. The parameter $errno
1851is the native error number you want to convert. If you do not pass any parameter, MetaError
1852will call ErrorNo() for you and convert it. If the error number cannot be virtualized, MetaError
1853will return -1 (DB_ERROR).</font></p>
1854
1855<p><font><b>MetaErrorMsg<a name="metaerrormsg"></a>($errno)</b></font></p>
1856<p><font>Pass the error number returned by MetaError() for the equivalent textual error message.</font></p>
1857<p><font><b>ErrorMsg<a name="errormsg"></a>()</b></font></p>
1858<p><font>Returns the last status or error message. The error message is reset after every
1859call to Execute().
1860</font></p><p>
1861<font>This can return a string even if
1862    no error occurs. In general you do not need to call this function unless an
1863    ADOdb function returns false on an error. </font></p>
1864<p><font>Note: If <b>debug</b> is enabled, the SQL error message is always displayed
1865    when the <b>Execute</b> function is called.</font></p>
1866<p><font><b>ErrorNo<a name="errorno"></a>()</b></font></p>
1867<p><font>Returns the last error number. The error number is reset after every call to Execute().
1868If 0 is returned, no error occurred.
1869</font></p><p>
1870<font>Note that old versions of PHP (pre 4.0.6) do
1871    not support error number for ODBC. In general you do not need to call this
1872    function unless an ADOdb function returns false on an error.</font></p>
1873<p><font><b>IgnoreErrors<a name="ignoreerrors"></a>($saveErrHandlers)</b></font></p>
1874<p>Allows you to ignore errors so that StartTrans()/CompleteTrans() is not affected, nor is the default error handler called if an error occurs.
1875Useful when you want to check if a field or table exists in a database without invoking an error if it does not exist.
1876<p>Usage:
1877<pre>
1878$saveErrHandlers = $conn->IgnoreErrors();
1879$rs = $conn->Execute("select field from some_table_that_might_not_exist");
1880$conn->IgnoreErrors($saveErrHandlers);
1881</pre>
1882<p>Warning: do not call StartTrans()/CompleteTrans() inside a code block that is using IgnoreErrors().
1883<p><font><b>SetFetchMode<a name="setfetchmode"></a>($mode)</b></font></p>
1884<p><font>Sets the current fetch mode for the connection and stores
1885    it in $db-&gt;fetchMode. Legal modes are ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC and ADODB_FETCH_NUM.
1886    For more info, see <a href="#adodb_fetch_mode">$ADODB_FETCH_MODE</a>.</font></p>
1887<p><font>Returns the previous fetch mode, which could be false
1888    if SetFetchMode( ) has not been called before.</font></p>
1889<font> 
1890</font><p><font><b>CreateSequence<a name="createseq"></a>($seqName = 'adodbseq',$startID=1)</b></font></p>
1891<p><font>Create a sequence. The next time GenID( ) is called, the value returned will
1892    be $startID. Added in 2.60.
1893</font></p><p><font><b>DropSequence<a name="dropseq"></a>($seqName = 'adodbseq')</b></font></p>
1894<p><font>Delete a sequence. Added in 2.60.
1895</font></p><p><font><b>GenID<a name="genid"></a>($seqName = 'adodbseq',$startID=1)</b></font></p>
1896<p><font>Generate a sequence number . Works for interbase,
1897    mysql, postgresql, oci8, oci8po, mssql, ODBC based (access,vfp,db2,etc) drivers
1898    currently. Uses $seqName as the name of the sequence. GenID() will automatically
1899    create the sequence for you if it does not exist (provided the userid has
1900    permission to do so). Otherwise you will have to create the sequence yourself.
1901</font></p><p><font> If your database driver emulates sequences, the name of the table is the sequence
1902    name. The table has one column, "id" which should be of type integer, or if
1903    you need something larger - numeric(16).
1904</font></p><p><font> For ODBC and databases that do not support sequences natively (eg mssql, mysql),
1905    we create a table for each sequence. If the sequence has not been defined
1906    earlier, it is created with the starting value set in $startID.</font></p>
1907<p><font>Note that the mssql driver's GenID() before 1.90 used to generate 16 byte GUID's.</font></p>
1908<p><font><b>UpdateBlob<a name="updateblob"></a>($table,$column,$val,$where)</b></font></p>
1909<font>Allows you to store a blob (in $val) into $table into $column in a row at $where.
1910</font><p><font> Usage:
1911</font></p><p><font>
1912</font></p><pre><font>  # for oracle<br>    $conn-&gt;Execute('INSERT INTO blobtable (id, blobcol) VALUES (1, empty_blob())');<br>  $conn-&gt;UpdateBlob('blobtable','blobcol',$blobvalue,'id=1');<br>  <br>    # non oracle databases<br>  $conn-&gt;Execute('INSERT INTO blobtable (id, blobcol) VALUES (1, null)');<br>  $conn-&gt;UpdateBlob('blobtable','blobcol',$blobvalue,'id=1');<br></font></pre>
1913<p><font> Returns true if succesful, false otherwise. Supported by MySQL, PostgreSQL,
1914    Oci8, Oci8po and Interbase drivers. Other drivers might work, depending on
1915    the state of development.</font></p>
1916<p><font>Note that when an Interbase blob is retrieved using SELECT, it still needs
1917    to be decoded using $connection-&gt;DecodeBlob($blob); to derive the original
1918    value in versions of PHP before 4.1.0.
1919</font></p><p><font>For PostgreSQL, you can store your blob using blob oid's or as a bytea field.
1920    You can use bytea fields but not blob oid's currently with UpdateBlob( ).
1921    Conversely UpdateBlobFile( ) supports oid's, but not bytea data.<br>
1922    <br>
1923    If you do not pass in an oid, then UpdateBlob() assumes that you are storing
1924    in bytea fields.
1925    <p>If you do not have any blob fields, you can improve you can improve general SQL query performance by disabling blob handling with $connection->disableBlobs = true.
1926</p></font><p><font><b>UpdateClob<a name="updateclob"></a>($table,$column,$val,$where)</b></font></p>
1927<font>Allows you to store a clob (in $val) into $table into $column in a row at $where.
1928Similar to UpdateBlob (see above), but for Character Large OBjects.
1929</font><p><font> Usage:
1930</font></p><pre><font>  # for oracle<br>    $conn-&gt;Execute('INSERT INTO clobtable (id, clobcol) VALUES (1, empty_clob())');<br>  $conn-&gt;UpdateBlob('clobtable','clobcol',$clobvalue,'id=1');<br>  <br>    # non oracle databases<br>  $conn-&gt;Execute('INSERT INTO clobtable (id, clobcol) VALUES (1, null)');<br>  $conn-&gt;UpdateBlob('clobtable','clobcol',$clobvalue,'id=1');<br></font></pre>
1931<p><font><b>UpdateBlobFile<a name="updateblobfile"></a>($table,$column,$path,$where,$blobtype='BLOB')</b></font></p>
1932<p><font>Similar to UpdateBlob, except that we pass in a file path to where the blob
1933    resides.
1934</font></p><p><font>For PostgreSQL, if you are using blob oid's, use this interface. This interface
1935    does not support bytea fields.
1936</font></p><p><font>Returns true if successful, false otherwise.
1937</font></p><p><font><b>BlobEncode<a name="blobencode" id="blobencode"></a>($blob)</b>
1938</font></p><p><font>Some databases require blob's to be encoded manually before upload. Note if
1939    you use UpdateBlob( ) or UpdateBlobFile( ) the conversion is done automatically
1940    for you and you do not have to call this function. For PostgreSQL, currently,
1941    BlobEncode() can only be used for bytea fields.
1942</font></p><p><font>Returns the encoded blob value.
1943</font></p><p><font>Note that there is a connection property called <em>blobEncodeType</em> which
1944    has 3 legal values:
1945</font></p><p><font>false - no need to perform encoding or decoding.<br>
1946    'I' - blob encoding required, and returned encoded blob is a numeric value
1947    (no need to quote).<br>
1948    'C' - blob encoding required, and returned encoded blob is a character value
1949    (requires quoting).
1950</font></p><p><font>This is purely for documentation purposes, so that programs that accept multiple
1951    database drivers know what is the right thing to do when processing blobs.
1952</font></p><p><font><strong>BlobDecode<a name="blobdecode"></a>($blob, $maxblobsize = false)</strong>
1953</font></p><p><font>Some databases require blob's to be decoded manually after doing a select statement.
1954    If the database does not require decoding, then this function will return
1955    the blob unchanged. Currently BlobDecode is only required for one database,
1956    PostgreSQL, and only if you are using blob oid's (if you are using bytea fields,
1957    we auto-decode for you).</font> The default maxblobsize is set in $connection-&gt;maxblobsize, which
1958    is set to 256K in adodb 4.54. </p><p>
1959    In ADOdb 4.54 and later, the blob is the return value. In earlier versions, the blob data is sent to stdout.</p><font>
1960</font><p></p><pre><font>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute("select bloboid from postgres_table where id=$key");<br>$blob = $db-&gt;BlobDecode( reset($rs-&gt;fields) );</font></pre>
1961<p><font><b>Replace<a name="replace"></a>($table, $arrFields, $keyCols,$autoQuote=false)</b></font></p>
1962<p><font>Try to update a record, and if the record is not found, an insert statement
1963    is generated and executed. Returns 0 on failure, 1 if update statement worked,
1964    2 if no record was found and the insert was executed successfully. This differs
1965    from MySQL's replace which deletes the record and inserts a new record. This
1966    also means you cannot update the primary key. The only exception to this is
1967    Interbase and its derivitives, which uses delete and insert because of some
1968    Interbase API limitations.
1969</font></p><p><font>The parameters are $table which is the table name, the $arrFields which is an
1970    associative array where the keys are the field names, and $keyCols is the name
1971    of the primary key, or an array of field names if it is a compound key. If
1972    $autoQuote is set to true, then Replace() will quote all values that are non-numeric;
1973    auto-quoting will not quote nulls. Note that auto-quoting will not work if
1974    you use SQL functions or operators.
1975</font></p><p><font>Examples:
1976</font></p><pre><font># single field primary key<br>$ret = $db-&gt;Replace('atable', <br>   array('id'=&gt;1000,'firstname'=&gt;'Harun','lastname'=&gt;'Al-Rashid'),<br>    'id',$autoquote = true);    <br># generates UPDATE atable SET firstname='Harun',lastname='Al-Rashid' WHERE id=1000<br># or INSERT INTO atable (id,firstname,lastname) VALUES (1000,'Harun','Al-Rashid')<br><br># compound key<br>$ret = $db-&gt;Replace('atable2', <br> array('firstname'=&gt;'Harun','lastname'=&gt;'Al-Rashid', 'age' =&gt; 33, 'birthday' =&gt; 'null'),<br> array('lastname','firstname'),<br>  $autoquote = true);<br><br># no auto-quoting<br>$ret = $db-&gt;Replace('atable2', <br>  array('firstname'=&gt;"'Harun'",'lastname'=&gt;"'Al-Rashid'", 'age' =&gt; 'null'),<br>  array('lastname','firstname')); <br></font></pre>
1977<p><font><b>AutoExecute<a name="autoexecute"></a>($table, $arrFields, $mode, $where=false, $forceUpdate=true,$magicq=false)</b></font></p>
1978<p>Since ADOdb 4.56, you can automatically generate and execute INSERTs and UPDATEs on a given table with this
1979function, which is a wrapper for GetInsertSQL() and GetUpdateSQL().
1980<p>AutoExecute() inserts or updates $table given an array of $arrFields, where the keys are the field names and the array values are the
1981field values to store. Note that there is some overhead because the table is first queried to extract key information
1982before the SQL is generated. We generate an INSERT or UPDATE based on $mode (see below).
1983<p>
1984Legal values for $mode are
1985<ul>
1986<li>'INSERT' or 1 or DB_AUTOQUERY_INSERT
1987<li>'UPDATE' or 2 or DB_AUTOQUERY_UPDATE
1988</ul>
1989<p>You have to define the constants DB_AUTOQUERY_UPDATE and DB_AUTOQUERY_INSERT yourself or include adodb-pear.inc.php.
1990<p>The $where clause is required if $mode == 'UPDATE'. If $forceUpdate=false then we will query the
1991database first and check if the field value returned by the query matches the current field value; only if they differ do we update that field.
1992<p>Returns true on success, false on error.
1993<p>An example of its use is:
1994<pre>
1995$record["firstName"] = "Carol";
1996$record["lasTname"] = "Smith";
1997$conn->AutoExecute($table,$record,'INSERT');
1998# executes <i>"INSERT INTO $table (firstName,lasTname) values ('Carol',Smith')"</i>;
1999
2000$record["firstName"] = "Carol";
2001$record["lasTname"] = "Jones";
2002$conn->AutoExecute($table,$record,'UPDATE', "lastname like 'Sm%'");
2003# executes <i>"UPDATE $table SET firstName='Carol',lasTname='Jones' WHERE lastname like 'Sm%'"</i>;
2004</pre>
2005<p>Note: One of the strengths of ADOdb's AutoExecute() is that only valid field names for $table are updated. If $arrFields
2006contains keys that are invalid field names for $table, they are ignored. There is some overhead in doing this as we have to
2007query the database to get the field names, but given that you are not directly coding the SQL yourself, you probably aren't interested in
2008speed at all, but convenience.
2009<p>Since 4.62, the table name to be used can be overridden by setting $rs->tableName before AutoExecute(), GetInsertSQL() or GetUpdateSQL() is called.
2010<p>Since 4.94, setting the global variable $ADODB_QUOTE_FIELDNAMES to true will force field names to be auto-quoted in AutoExecute(), GetInsertSQL() and GetUpdateSQL(). </p>
2011<p><font><b>GetUpdateSQL<a name="getupdatesql"></a>(&amp;$rs, $arrFields, $forceUpdate=false,$magicq=false, $force=null)</b></font></p>
2012<p><font>Generate SQL to update a table given a recordset $rs, and the modified fields
2013    of the array $arrFields (which must be an associative array holding the column
2014    names and the new values) are compared with the current recordset. If $forceUpdate
2015    is true, then we also generate the SQL even if $arrFields is identical to
2016    $rs-&gt;fields. Requires the recordset to be associative. $magicq is used
2017    to indicate whether magic quotes are enabled (see qstr()). The field names in the array
2018    are case-insensitive.</font></p>
2019<font>  </font><p><font>Since 4.52, we allow you to pass the $force type parameter, and this overrides the <a href="#ADODB_FORCE_TYPE">$ADODB_FORCE_TYPE</a>
2020    global variable.
2021<p>Since 4.62, the table name to be used can be overridden by setting $rs->tableName before AutoExecute(), GetInsertSQL() or GetUpdateSQL() is called.
2022</p></font><p><font><b>GetInsertSQL<a name="getinsertsql"></a>(&amp;$rs, $arrFields,$magicq=false,$force_type=false)</b></font></p>
2023<p><font>Generate SQL to insert into a table given a recordset $rs. Requires the query
2024    to be associative. $magicq is used to indicate whether magic quotes are enabled
2025    (for qstr()). The field names in the array are case-insensitive.</font></p>
2026<p>
2027<font>  Since 2.42, you can pass a  table name instead of a recordset into
2028GetInsertSQL (in $rs), and it will generate an insert statement for that table.
2029</font></p><p><font>Since 4.52, we allow you to pass the $force_type parameter, and this overrides the <a href="#ADODB_FORCE_TYPE">$ADODB_FORCE_TYPE</a>
2030    global variable.
2031<p>Since 4.62, the table name to be used can be overridden by setting $rs->tableName before AutoExecute(), GetInsertSQL() or GetUpdateSQL() is called.
2032</p></font><p><font><b>PageExecute<a name="pageexecute"></a>($sql, $nrows, $page, $inputarr=false)</b>
2033</font></p><p><font>Used for pagination of recordset. $page is 1-based. See <a href="#ex8">Example
2034  8</a>.</font></p>
2035 
2036<p><font><b>CachePageExecute<a name="cachepageexecute"></a>($secs2cache,
2037  $sql, $nrows, $page, $inputarr=false)</b> </font></p>
2038<p><font>Used for pagination of recordset. $page is 1-based. See
2039  <a href="#ex8">Example 8</a>. Caching version of PageExecute.</font></p>
2040<font> 
2041</font><p></p>
2042<p><font><b>Close<a name="close"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2043<p><font>Close the database connection. PHP4 proudly states that we no longer have to
2044  clean up at the end of the connection because the reference counting mechanism
2045  of PHP4 will automatically clean up for us.</font></p>
2046<font>  </font><p><font><b>StartTrans<a name="starttrans"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2047<font>  </font><p><font>Start a monitored transaction. As SQL statements are executed, ADOdb will monitor
2048  for SQL errors, and if any are detected, when CompleteTrans() is called, we auto-rollback.
2049  </font></p><p>
2050<font>  </font></p><p><font> To understand why StartTrans() is superior to BeginTrans(),
2051  let us examine a few ways of using BeginTrans().
2052  The following is the wrong way to use transactions:
2053</font></p><pre><font>$DB-&gt;BeginTrans();<br>$DB-&gt;Execute("update table1 set val=$val1 where id=$id");<br>$DB-&gt;Execute("update table2 set val=$val2 where id=$id");<br>$DB-&gt;CommitTrans();<br></font></pre>
2054<p><font>because you perform no error checking. It is possible to update table1 and
2055  for the update on table2 to fail. Here is a better way:
2056</font></p><pre><font>$DB-&gt;BeginTrans();<br>$ok = $DB-&gt;Execute("update table1 set val=$val1 where id=$id");<br>if ($ok) $ok = $DB-&gt;Execute("update table2 set val=$val2 where id=$id");<br>if ($ok) $DB-&gt;CommitTrans();<br>else $DB-&gt;RollbackTrans();<br></font></pre>
2057<p><font>Another way is (since ADOdb 2.0):
2058</font></p><pre><font>$DB-&gt;BeginTrans();<br>$ok = $DB-&gt;Execute("update table1 set val=$val1 where id=$id");<br>if ($ok) $ok = $DB-&gt;Execute("update table2 set val=$val2 where id=$id");<br>$DB-&gt;CommitTrans($ok);<br></font></pre>
2059<p><font> Now it is a headache monitoring $ok all over the place. StartTrans() is an
2060improvement because it monitors all SQL errors for you. This is particularly
2061useful if you are calling black-box functions in which SQL queries might be executed.
2062 Also all BeginTrans, CommitTrans and RollbackTrans calls inside a StartTrans block
2063  will be disabled, so even if the black box function does a commit, it will be ignored.
2064</font></p><pre><font>$DB-&gt;StartTrans();<br>CallBlackBox();<br>$DB-&gt;Execute("update table1 set val=$val1 where id=$id");<br>$DB-&gt;Execute("update table2 set val=$val2 where id=$id");<br>$DB-&gt;CompleteTrans();<br></font></pre>
2065<p><font>Note that a StartTrans blocks are nestable, the inner blocks are ignored.
2066 </font></p><p><font><b>CompleteTrans<a name="completetrans"></a>($autoComplete=true)</b></font></p>
2067<font>  </font><p><font>Complete a transaction called with StartTrans(). This function monitors
2068  for SQL errors, and will commit if no errors have occured, otherwise it will rollback.
2069  Returns true on commit, false on rollback. If the parameter $autoComplete is true
2070  monitor sql errors and commit and rollback as appropriate. Set $autoComplete to false
2071  to force rollback even if no SQL error detected.
2072  </font></p><p><font><b>FailTrans<a name="failtrans"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2073<font>  </font><p><font>Fail a transaction started with StartTrans(). The rollback will only occur when
2074  CompleteTrans() is called.
2075    </font></p><p><font><b>HasFailedTrans<a name="hasfailedtrans"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2076<font>  </font><p><font>Check whether smart transaction has failed,
2077    eg. returns true if there was an error in SQL execution or FailTrans() was called.
2078    If not within smart transaction, returns false.
2079</font></p><p><font><b>BeginTrans<a name="begintrans"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2080<p><font>Begin a transaction. Turns off autoCommit. Returns true if successful. Some
2081  databases will always return false if transaction support is not available.
2082   Any open transactions will be rolled back when the connection is closed. Among the
2083   databases that support transactions are Oracle, PostgreSQL, Interbase, MSSQL, certain
2084    versions of MySQL, DB2, Informix, Sybase, etc.</font></p>
2085<font> </font><p><font>Note that <a href="#starttrans">StartTrans()</a> and CompleteTrans() is a superior method of
2086 handling transactions, available since ADOdb 3.40. For a explanation, see the <a href="#starttrans">StartTrans()</a> documentation.
2087
2088</font></p><p><font>You can also use the ADOdb <a href="#errorhandling">error handler</a> to die
2089  and rollback your transactions for you transparently. Some buggy database extensions
2090  are known to commit all outstanding tranasactions, so you might want to explicitly
2091  do a $DB-&gt;RollbackTrans() in your error handler for safety.
2092 </font></p><h4><font>Detecting Transactions</font></h4>
2093<font> </font><p><font>Since ADOdb 2.50, you are able to detect when you are inside a transaction. Check
2094 that $connection-&gt;transCnt &gt; 0. This variable is incremented whenever BeginTrans() is called,
2095 and decremented whenever RollbackTrans() or CommitTrans() is called.
2096</font></p><p><font><b>CommitTrans<a name="committrans"></a>($ok=true)</b></font></p>
2097<p><font>End a transaction successfully. Returns true if successful. If the database
2098  does not support transactions, will return true also as data is always committed.
2099</font></p>
2100<p><font>If you pass the parameter $ok=false, the data is rolled back. See example in
2101  BeginTrans().</font></p>
2102<p><font><b>RollbackTrans<a name="rollbacktrans"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2103<p><font>End a transaction, rollback all changes. Returns true if successful. If the
2104  database does not support transactions, will return false as data is never rollbacked.
2105</font></p>
2106 
2107<p><font><b>SetTransactionMode<a name="SetTransactionMode"></a>($mode )</b></font></p>
2108<p>SetTransactionMode allows you to pass in the transaction mode to use for all subsequent transactions.
2109Note: if you have persistent connections and using mssql or mysql, you might have to explicitly reset your transaction mode at the beginning of each page request.
2110This is only supported in postgresql, mssql, mysql with InnoDB and oci8 currently. For example:
2111<pre>
2112$db->SetTransactionMode("SERIALIZABLE");
2113$db->BeginTrans();
2114$db->Execute(...); $db->Execute(...);
2115$db->CommiTrans();
2116
2117$db->SetTransactionMode(""); // restore to default
2118$db->StartTrans();
2119$db->Execute(...); $db->Execute(...);
2120$db->CompleteTrans();
2121</pre>
2122
2123<p>Supported values to pass in:
2124<ul>
2125<li>READ UNCOMMITTED (allows dirty reads, but fastest)
2126<li>READ COMMITTED (default postgres, mssql and oci8)
2127<li>REPEATABLE READ (default mysql)
2128<li>SERIALIZABLE (slowest and most restrictive)
2129</ul>
2130<p>You can also pass in database specific values such as 'SNAPSHOT' for mssql or 'READ ONLY' for oci8/postgres.
2131<p>See transaction levels for <a href=http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-set-transaction.html>PostgreSQL</a>,
2132<a href=http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/server.101/b10759/statements_10005.htm>Oracle</a>,
2133<a href=http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/set-transaction.html>MySQL</a>, and
2134<a href=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/ms173763.aspx>MS SQL Server</a>.
2135<p><font><b>GetAssoc<a name="getassoc1"></a>($sql,$inputarr=false,$force_array=false,$first2cols=false)</b></font></p>
2136<p><font>Returns an associative array for the given query $sql with optional bind parameters
2137  in $inputarr. If the number of columns returned is greater to two, a 2-dimensional
2138  array is returned, with the first column of the recordset becomes the keys
2139  to the rest of the rows. If the columns is equal to two, a 1-dimensional array
2140  is created, where the the keys directly map to the values (unless $force_array
2141  is set to true, when an array is created for each value).
2142</font></p><p><font> Examples:<a name="getassocex"></a></font></p>
2143
2144<p><font>We have the following data in a recordset:</font></p>
2145<p><font>row1: Apple, Fruit, Edible<br>
2146  row2: Cactus, Plant, Inedible<br>
2147  row3: Rose, Flower, Edible</font></p>
2148<p><font>GetAssoc will generate the following 2-dimensional associative
2149  array:</font></p>
2150<p><font>Apple =&gt; array[Fruit, Edible]<br>
2151  Cactus =&gt; array[Plant, Inedible]<br>
2152  Rose =&gt; array[Flower,Edible]</font></p>
2153<p><font>If the dataset is:</font></p>
2154<p><font>row1: Apple, Fruit<br>
2155row2: Cactus, Plant<br>
2156row3: Rose, Flower </font></p>
2157<p><font>GetAssoc will generate the following 1-dimensional associative
2158  array (with $force_array==false):</font></p>
2159<p><font>Apple =&gt; Fruit</font><br>
2160  Cactus=&gt;Plant<br>
2161  Rose=&gt;Flower </p>
2162<p><font>The function returns:</font></p>
2163<p><font>The associative array, or false if an error occurs.</font></p>
2164<font>
2165<p><b>CacheGetAssoc<a name="cachegetassoc"></a>([$secs2cache,] $sql,$inputarr=false,$force_array=false,$first2cols=false)</b></p>
2166</font>
2167<p><font>Caching version of <a href="#getassoc1">GetAssoc</a> function above.
2168</font></p><p><font><b>GetOne<a name="getone"></a>($sql,$inputarr=false)</b></font></p>
2169<p><font>Executes the SQL and returns the first field of the first row. The recordset
2170  and remaining rows are discarded for you automatically. If an error occur, false
2171  is returned; use ErrorNo() or ErrorMsg() to get the error details.
2172  Since 4.96/5.00, we return null if no records were found. And since 4.991/5.06, you can have change the return value if no records are found using the global variable $ADODB_GETONE_EOF: $ADODB_GETONE_EOF = false; </font></p>
2173<p><font><b>GetRow<a name="getrow"></a>($sql,$inputarr=false)</b></font></p>
2174<p><font>Executes the SQL and returns the first row as an array. The recordset and remaining
2175  rows are discarded for you automatically. If no records are returned, an empty array is returned. If an error occurs, false is returned.</font></p>
2176<p><font><b>GetAll<a name="getall"></a>($sql,$inputarr=false)</b></font></p>
2177
2178<p>Executes the SQL and returns the all the rows as a 2-dimensional
2179  array. The recordset is discarded for you automatically. If an error occurs,
2180  false is returned. <i>GetArray</i> is a synonym for <i>GetAll</i>.</p>
2181 <p><b>GetCol<a name="getcol"></a>($sql,$inputarr=false,$trim=false)</b></p>
2182
2183<p><font>Executes the SQL and returns all elements of the first column as a
21841-dimensional array. The recordset is discarded for you automatically. If an error occurs,
2185  false is returned.</font></p>
2186<p><font><b>CacheGetOne<a name="cachegetone"></a>([$secs2cache,]
2187  $sql,$inputarr=false), CacheGetRow<a name="cachegetrow"></a>([$secs2cache,] $sql,$inputarr=false), CacheGetAll<a name="cachegetall"></a>([$secs2cache,]
2188  $sql,$inputarr=false), CacheGetCol<a name="cachegetcol"></a>([$secs2cache,]
2189  $sql,$inputarr=false,$trim=false)</b></font></p>
2190<font> 
2191</font><p><font>Similar to above Get* functions, except that the recordset is serialized and
2192  cached in the $ADODB_CACHE_DIR directory for $secs2cache seconds. Good for speeding
2193  up queries on rarely changing data. Note that the $secs2cache parameter is optional.
2194  If omitted, we use the value in $connection-&gt;cacheSecs (default is 3600 seconds,
2195  or 1 hour).</font>
2196  </p>
2197<p><font><b>Prepare<a name="prepare"></a>($sql )</b></font></p>
2198 
2199<p><font>Prepares (compiles) an SQL query for repeated execution. Bind parameters
2200are denoted by ?, except for the oci8 driver, which uses the traditional Oracle :varname
2201convention.
2202  </font></p>
2203<p><font>Returns an array containing the original sql statement
2204  in the first array element; the remaining elements of the array are driver dependent.
2205  If there is an error, or we are emulating Prepare( ), we return the original
2206  $sql string. This is because all error-handling has been centralized in Execute(
2207  ).</font></p>
2208<p><font>Prepare( ) cannot be used with functions that use SQL
2209  query rewriting techniques, e.g. PageExecute( ) and SelectLimit( ).</font></p>
2210<p>Example:</p>
2211<pre><font>$stmt = $DB-&gt;Prepare('insert into table (col1,col2) values (?,?)');<br>for ($i=0; $i &lt; $max; $i++)<br></font>  $DB-&gt;<font>Execute($stmt,array((string) rand(), $i));<br></font></pre>
2212<font> 
2213</font><p><font>Also see InParameter(), OutParameter() and PrepareSP() below. Only supported internally by interbase,
2214  oci8 and selected ODBC-based drivers, otherwise it is emulated. There is no
2215  performance advantage to using Prepare() with emulation.
2216</font></p><p><font> Important: Due to limitations or bugs in PHP, if you are getting errors when
2217  you using prepared queries, try setting $ADODB_COUNTRECS = false before preparing.
2218  This behaviour has been observed with ODBC.
2219</font></p><p><font><b>IfNull<a name="ifnull"></a>($field, $nullReplacementValue)</b></font></p>
2220<p><font>Portable IFNULL function (NVL in Oracle). Returns a string that represents
2221  the function that checks whether a $field is null for the given database, and
2222  if null, change the value returned to $nullReplacementValue. Eg.</font></p>
2223<pre><font>$sql = <font color="#993300">'SELECT '</font>.$db-&gt;IfNull('name', <font color="#993300">"'- unknown -'"</font>).<font color="#993300"> ' FROM table'</font>;</font></pre>
2224
2225<p><font><b>length<a name="length"></a></b></font></p>
2226<p><font>This is not a function, but a property. Some databases have "length" and others "len"
2227as the function to measure the length of a string. To use this property:
2228</font></p><pre><font>  $sql = <font color="#993300">"SELECT "</font>.$db-&gt;length.<font color="#993300">"(field) from table"</font>;<br>  $rs = $db-&gt;Execute($sql);<br></font></pre>
2229
2230<p><font><b>random<a name="random"></a></b></font></p>
2231<p><font>This is not a function, but a property. This is a string that holds the sql to
2232generate a random number between 0.0 and 1.0 inclusive.
2233
2234</font></p><p><font><b>substr<a name="substr"></a></b></font></p>
2235<p><font>This is not a function, but a property. Some databases have "substr" and others "substring"
2236as the function to retrieve a sub-string. To use this property:
2237</font></p><pre><font>  $sql = <font color="#993300">"SELECT "</font>.$db-&gt;substr.<font color="#993300">"(field, $offset, $length) from table"</font>;<br>  $rs = $db-&gt;Execute($sql);<br></font></pre>
2238<p><font>For all databases, the 1st parameter of <i>substr</i> is the field, the 2nd is the
2239offset (1-based) to the beginning of the sub-string, and the 3rd is the length of the sub-string.
2240
2241
2242</font></p><p><font><b>Param<a name="param"></a>($name)</b></font></p>
2243<p><font>Generates a bind placeholder portably. For most databases, the bind placeholder
2244  is "?". However some databases use named bind parameters such as Oracle, eg
2245  ":somevar". This allows us to portably define an SQL statement with bind parameters:
2246</font></p><pre><font>$sql = <font color="#993300">'insert into table (col1,col2) values ('</font>.$DB-&gt;Param('a').<font color="#993300">','</font>.$DB-&gt;Param('b').<font color="#993300">')'</font>;<br><font color="#006600"># generates 'insert into table (col1,col2) values (?,?)'<br># or        'insert into table (col1,col2) values (:a,:b)</font>'<br>$stmt = $DB-&gt;Prepare($sql);<br>$stmt = $DB-&gt;Execute($stmt,array('one','two'));<br></font></pre>
2247<font> </font>
2248<p></p>
2249<p><font><b>PrepareSP</b><b><a name="preparesp"></a></b><b>($sql,
2250$cursor=false )</b></font></p>
2251<p><font>When calling stored procedures in mssql and oci8 (oracle),
2252    and you might want to directly bind to parameters that return values, or
2253for special LOB handling. PrepareSP() allows you to do so. </font></p>
2254<p><font>Returns the same array or $sql string as Prepare( )
2255    above. If you do not need to bind to return values, you should use Prepare(
2256  ) instead.</font></p>
2257<p><font>The 2nd parameter, $cursor is not used except with oci8.
2258    Setting it to true will force OCINewCursor to be called; this is to support
2259output REF CURSORs. </font></p>
2260<p><font>For examples of usage of PrepareSP( ), see InParameter(
2261) below. </font></p>
2262<p><font>Note: in the mssql driver, preparing stored procedures
2263    requires a special function call, mssql_init( ), which is called by this
2264    function. PrepareSP( ) is available in all other drivers, and is emulated
2265  by calling Prepare( ). </font></p>
2266<p><font><b> InParameter<a name="inparameter"></a>($stmt, $var,
2267  $name, $maxLen = 4000, $type = false )</b></font></p>
2268<font>Binds a PHP variable as input to a stored procedure variable.
2269The parameter <i>$stmt</i> is the value returned by PrepareSP(), <i>$var</i> is
2270the PHP variable you want to bind, $name is the name of the stored procedure
2271variable. Optional is <i>$maxLen</i>, the maximum length of the data to bind,
2272and $type which is database dependant. Consult <a href="http://php.net/mssql_bind">mssql_bind</a> and <a href="http://php.net/ocibindbyname">ocibindbyname</a> docs
2273at php.net for more info on legal values for $type. </font>
2274<p>
2275<font>InParameter() is a wrapper function that calls Parameter()
2276with $isOutput=false. The advantage of this function is that it is self-documenting,
2277because the $isOutput parameter is no longer needed. Only for mssql and oci8
2278currently. </font></p>
2279<p><font>Here is an example using oci8: </font></p>
2280<pre><font><font color="green"># For oracle, Prepare and PrepareSP are identical</font>
2281$stmt = $db-&gt;PrepareSP(
2282    <font color="#993300">"declare RETVAL integer; <br> begin<br>   :RETVAL := </font><font color="#993300">SP_RUNSOMETHING</font><font color="#993300">(:myid,:group);<br> end;"</font>);<br>$db-&gt;InParameter($stmt,$id,'myid');<br>$db-&gt;InParameter($stmt,$group,'group',64);<br>$db-&gt;OutParameter($stmt,$ret,'RETVAL');<br>$db-&gt;Execute($stmt);<br></font></pre>
2283<p><font> The same example using mssql:</font></p>
2284<font> 
2285</font><pre><font><font color="green"># @RETVAL = SP_RUNSOMETHING @myid,@group</font>
2286$stmt = $db-&gt;PrepareSP(<font color="#993333">'<font color="#993300">SP_RUNSOMETHING</font>'</font>); <br><font color="green"># note that the parameter name does not have @ in front!</font>
2287$db-&gt;InParameter($stmt,$id,'myid');
2288$db-&gt;InParameter($stmt,$group,'group',64);
2289<font color="green"># return value in mssql - RETVAL is hard-coded name</font> <br>$db-&gt;OutParameter($stmt,$ret,'RETVAL');<br>$db-&gt;Execute($stmt); </font></pre>
2290
2291<p><font>Note that the only difference between the oci8 and mssql implementations is $sql.</font></p>
2292<p>
2293<font> If $type parameter is set to false, in mssql, $type will be dynamicly determined
2294based on the type of the PHP variable passed <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">(string
2295=&gt; SQLCHAR, boolean =&gt;SQLINT1, integer =&gt;SQLINT4 or float/double=&gt;SQLFLT8)</font>.
2296</font></p><p><font>
2297In oci8, $type can be set to OCI_B_FILE (Binary-File), OCI_B_CFILE (Character-File),
2298OCI_B_CLOB (Character-LOB), OCI_B_BLOB (Binary-LOB) and OCI_B_ROWID (ROWID). To
2299pass in a null, use<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"> $db-&gt;Parameter($stmt,
2300$null=null, 'param')</font>.
2301  </font></p><p><font><b> OutParameter<a name="outparameter"></a>($stmt, $var, $name,
2302  $maxLen = 4000, $type = false )</b></font></p>
2303<font>  Binds a PHP variable as output from a stored procedure variable. The parameter <i>$stmt</i>
2304 is the value returned by PrepareSP(), <i>$var</i> is the PHP variable you want to bind, <i>$name</i>
2305 is the name of the stored procedure variable. Optional is <i>$maxLen</i>, the maximum length of the
2306 data to bind, and <i>$type</i> which is database dependant.
2307</font><p>
2308<font>  OutParameter() is a wrapper function that calls Parameter() with $isOutput=true.
2309  The advantage of this function is that it is self-documenting, because
2310the $isOutput parameter is no longer needed.  Only for mssql
2311  and oci8 currently.
2312</font></p><p>
2313<font>For an example, see <a href="#inparameter">InParameter</a>.
2314
2315</font></p><p><font><b> Parameter<a name="parameter"></a>($stmt, $var, $name, $isOutput=false,
2316  $maxLen = 4000, $type = false )</b></font></p>
2317<p><font>Note: This function is deprecated, because of the new InParameter() and OutParameter() functions.
2318These are superior because they are self-documenting, unlike Parameter().
2319</font></p><p><font>Adds a bind parameter suitable for return values or special data handling (eg.
2320  LOBs) after a statement has been prepared using PrepareSP(). Only for mssql
2321  and oci8 currently. The parameters are:<br>
2322  <br>
2323  $<i><b>stmt</b></i> Statement returned by Prepare() or PrepareSP().<br>
2324  $<i><b>var</b></i> PHP variable to bind to. Make sure you pre-initialize it!<br>
2325  $<i><b>name</b></i> Name of stored procedure variable name to bind to.<br>
2326  [$<i><b>isOutput</b></i>] Indicates direction of parameter 0/false=IN 1=OUT
2327  2= IN/OUT. This is ignored in oci8 as this driver auto-detects the direction.<br>
2328  [$<b>maxLen</b>] Maximum length of the parameter variable.<br>
2329  [$<b>type</b>] Consult <a href="http://php.net/mssql_bind">mssql_bind</a> and
2330  <a href="http://php.net/ocibindbyname">ocibindbyname</a> docs at php.net for
2331  more info on legal values for type.</font></p>
2332<p><font>Lastly, in oci8, bind parameters can be reused without calling PrepareSP( )
2333  or Parameters again. This is not possible with mssql. An oci8 example:</font></p>
2334<pre><font>$id = 0; $i = 0;<br>$stmt = $db-&gt;PrepareSP( <font color="#993300">"update table set val=:i where id=:id"</font>);<br>$db-&gt;Parameter($stmt,$id,'id');<br>$db-&gt;Parameter($stmt,$i, 'i');<br>for ($cnt=0; $cnt &lt; 1000; $cnt++) {<br>    $id = $cnt; <br>    $i = $cnt * $cnt; <font color="green"># works with oci8!</font>
2335    $db-&gt;Execute($stmt); <br>}</font></pre>
2336<p><font><b>Bind<a name="bind"></a>($stmt, $var, $size=4001, $type=false, $name=false)</b></font></p>
2337 
2338<p><font>This is a low-level function supported only by the oci8
2339  driver. <b>Avoid using</b> unless you only want to support Oracle. The Parameter(
2340  ) function is the recommended way to go with bind variables.</font></p>
2341<p><font>Bind( ) allows you to use bind variables in your sql
2342  statement. This binds a PHP variable to a name defined in an Oracle sql statement
2343  that was previously prepared using Prepare(). Oracle named variables begin with
2344  a colon, and ADOdb requires the named variables be called :0, :1, :2, :3, etc.
2345  The first invocation of Bind() will match :0, the second invocation will match
2346  :1, etc. Binding can provide 100% speedups for insert, select and update statements.
2347  </font></p>
2348<p>The other variables, $size sets the buffer size for data storage, $type is
2349  the optional descriptor type OCI_B_FILE (Binary-File), OCI_B_CFILE (Character-File),
2350  OCI_B_CLOB (Character-LOB), OCI_B_BLOB (Binary-LOB) and OCI_B_ROWID (ROWID).
2351  Lastly, instead of using the default :0, :1, etc names, you can define your
2352  own bind-name using $name.
2353</p><p><font>The following example shows 3 bind variables being used:
2354  p1, p2 and p3. These variables are bound to :0, :1 and :2.</font></p>
2355<pre>$stmt = $DB-&gt;Prepare("insert into table (col0, col1, col2) values (:0, :1, :2)");<br>$DB-&gt;Bind($stmt, $p1);<br>$DB-&gt;Bind($stmt, $p2);<br>$DB-&gt;Bind($stmt, $p3);<br>for ($i = 0; $i &lt; $max; $i++) { <br>   $p1 = ?; $p2 = ?; $p3 = ?;<br>   $DB-&gt;Execute($stmt);<br>}</pre>
2356<p>You can also use named variables:</p>
2357<pre>$stmt = $DB-&gt;Prepare("insert into table (col0, col1, col2) values (:name0, :name1, :name2)");<br>$DB-&gt;Bind($stmt, $p1, "name0");<br>$DB-&gt;Bind($stmt, $p2, "name1");<br>$DB-&gt;Bind($stmt, $p3, "name2");<br>for ($i = 0; $i &lt; $max; $i++) { <br>   $p1 = ?; $p2 = ?; $p3 = ?;<br>   $DB-&gt;Execute($stmt);<br>}</pre>
2358<p><b>LogSQL($enable=true)<a name="logsql"></a></b></p>
2359Call this method to install a SQL logging and timing function (using fnExecute).
2360Then all SQL statements are logged into an adodb_logsql table in a database. If
2361the adodb_logsql table does not exist, ADOdb will create the table if you have
2362the appropriate permissions. Returns the previous logging value (true for enabled,
2363false for disabled). Here are samples of the DDL for selected databases:
2364<p> 
2365</p><pre>       <b>mysql:</b>
2366        CREATE TABLE adodb_logsql (
2367          created datetime NOT NULL,
2368          sql0 varchar(250) NOT NULL,
2369          sql1 text NOT NULL,
2370          params text NOT NULL,
2371          tracer text NOT NULL,
2372          timer decimal(16,6) NOT NULL
2373        )
2374       
2375        <b>postgres:</b>
2376        CREATE TABLE adodb_logsql (
2377          created timestamp NOT NULL,
2378          sql0 varchar(250) NOT NULL,
2379          sql1 text NOT NULL,
2380          params text NOT NULL,
2381          tracer text NOT NULL,
2382          timer decimal(16,6) NOT NULL
2383        )
2384       
2385        <b>mssql:</b>
2386        CREATE TABLE adodb_logsql (
2387          created datetime NOT NULL,
2388          sql0 varchar(250) NOT NULL,
2389          sql1 varchar(4000) NOT NULL,
2390          params varchar(3000) NOT NULL,
2391          tracer varchar(500) NOT NULL,
2392          timer decimal(16,6) NOT NULL
2393        )
2394       
2395        <b>oci8:</b>
2396        CREATE TABLE adodb_logsql (
2397          created date NOT NULL,
2398          sql0 varchar(250) NOT NULL,
2399          sql1 varchar(4000) NOT NULL,
2400          params varchar(4000),
2401          tracer varchar(4000),
2402          timer decimal(16,6) NOT NULL
2403        )
2404</pre>
2405Usage:
2406<pre>   $conn-&gt;LogSQL(); // turn on logging<br>    :<br> $conn-&gt;Execute(...);<br>   :<br> $conn-&gt;LogSQL(false); // turn off logging<br>    <br>    # output summary of SQL logging results<br> $perf = NewPerfMonitor($conn);<br>  echo $perf-&gt;SuspiciousSQL();<br> echo $perf-&gt;ExpensiveSQL();<br></pre>
2407<p>One limitation of logging is that rollback also prevents SQL from being logged.
2408</p><p>
2409If you prefer to use another name for the table used to store the SQL, you can override it by calling
2410adodb_perf::table($tablename), where $tablename is the new table name (you will still need to manually
2411create the table yourself). An example:
2412</p><pre>   include('adodb.inc.php');<br>   include('adodb-perf.inc.php');<br>  adodb_perf::table('my_logsql_table');<br></pre>
2413Also see <a href="docs-perf.htm">Performance Monitor</a>.
2414<p><font><b>fnExecute and fnCacheExecute properties<a name="fnexecute" id="fnexecute"></a></b></font></p>
2415<p>These two properties allow you to define bottleneck functions for all sql statements
2416  processed by ADOdb. This allows you to perform statistical analysis and query-rewriting
2417  of your sql.
2418</p><p><b>Examples of fnExecute</b></p>
2419<p>Here is an example of using fnExecute, to count all cached queries and non-cached
2420  queries, you can do this:</p>
2421<pre><font color="#006600"># $db is the connection object</font>
2422function &CountExecs($db, $sql, $inputarray)
2423{
2424global $EXECS;
2425
2426    if (!is_array(inputarray)) $EXECS++;
2427    <font color="#006600"># handle 2-dimensional input arrays</font>
2428    else if (is_array(reset($inputarray))) $EXECS += sizeof($inputarray);
2429    else $EXECS++;
2430   
2431    <font color="#006600"># in PHP4.4 and PHP5, we need to return a value by reference</font>
2432    $null = null;
2433    return $null;
2434}
2435
2436<font color="#006600"># $db is the connection object</font>
2437function CountCachedExecs($db, $secs2cache, $sql, $inputarray)
2438{<br>global $CACHED; $CACHED++;<br>}<br><br>$db = NewADOConnection('mysql');<br>$db-&gt;Connect(...);<br>$db-&gt;<strong>fnExecute</strong> = 'CountExecs';<br>$db-&gt;<strong>fnCacheExecute</strong> = 'CountCachedExecs';<br> :<br> :<br><font color="#006600"># After many sql statements:</font>`<br>printf("&lt;p&gt;Total queries=%d; total cached=%d&lt;/p&gt;",$EXECS+$CACHED, $CACHED);<br></pre>
2439<p>The fnExecute function is called before the sql is parsed and executed, so
2440  you can perform a query rewrite. If you are passing in a prepared statement,
2441  then $sql is an array (see <a href="#prepare">Prepare</a>). The fnCacheExecute
2442  function is only called if the recordset returned was cached.<font>
2443  The function parameters match the Execute and CacheExecute functions respectively,
2444  except that $this (the connection object) is passed as the first parameter.</font></p>
2445<p>Since ADOdb 3.91, the behaviour of fnExecute varies depending on whether the
2446  defined function returns a value. If it does not return a value, then the $sql
2447  is executed as before. This is useful for query rewriting or counting sql queries.
2448</p><p> On the other hand, you might want to replace the Execute function with one
2449  of your own design. If this is the case, then have your function return a value.
2450  If a value is returned, that value is returned immediately, without any further
2451  processing. This is used internally by ADOdb to implement LogSQL() functionality.
2452</p>
2453<p>
2454</p><hr />
2455<h3><font>ADOConnection Utility Functions</font></h3>
2456<p><font><b>BlankRecordSet<a name="blankrecordset"></a>([$queryid])</b></font></p>
2457<p><font>No longer available - removed since 1.99.</font></p>
2458<p><font><b>Concat<a name="concat"></a>($s1,$s2,....)</b></font></p>
2459<p><font>Generates the sql string used to concatenate $s1, $s2, etc together. Uses the
2460  string in the concat_operator field to generate the concatenation. Override
2461  this function if a concatenation operator is not used, eg. MySQL.</font></p>
2462<p><font>Returns the concatenated string.</font></p>
2463<p><font><b>DBDate<a name="dbdate"></a>($date)</b></font></p>
2464<p><font>Format the $<b>date</b> in the format the database accepts - the return string is also quoted. This is used
2465when you are sending dates to the database (eg INSERT, UPDATE or where clause of SELECT statement).
2466  The $<b>date</b> parameter can be a Unix integer timestamp or an ISO format
2467  Y-m-d. Uses the fmtDate field, which holds the format to use. If null or false
2468  or '' is passed in, it will be converted to an SQL null.</font></p>
2469<p><font>Returns the date as a quoted string.</font></p>
2470<pre>
2471    $sql = "select * from atable where created > ".$db->DBDate("$year-$month-$day");
2472    $db->Execute($sql);
2473</pre>
2474<p>Note to retrieve a date column in a specific format,  use <a href="#sqldate">SQLDate</a>. </p>
2475<p><font><b>BindDate<a name="binddate"></a>($date)</b></font></p>
2476<p><font>Format the $<b>date</b> in the bind format the database accepts. Normally
2477 this means that the date string is not quoted, unlike DBDate, which quotes the string.
2478<pre>
2479    $sql = "select * from atable where created > ".$db->Param('0');
2480    // or
2481    $sql = "select * from atable where created > ?";
2482    $db->Execute($sql,array($db->BindDate("$year-$month-$day"));
2483</pre>
2484<p><font><b>DBTimeStamp<a name="dbtimestamp"></a>($ts)</b></font></p>
2485<p><font>Format the timestamp $<b>ts</b> in the format the database accepts; this can
2486  be a Unix integer timestamp or an ISO format Y-m-d H:i:s. Uses the fmtTimeStamp
2487  field, which holds the format to use. If null or false or '' is passed in, it
2488  will be converted to an SQL null.</font></p>
2489<p><font>Returns the timestamp as a quoted string.</font></p>
2490<pre>
2491    $sql = "select * from atable where created > ".$db->DBTimeStamp("$year-$month-$day $hr:$min:$secs");
2492    $db->Execute($sql);
2493</pre>
2494<p><font><b>BindTimeStamp<a name="bindtimestamp"></a>($ts)</b></font></p>
2495<p><font>Format the timestamp $<b>ts</b> in the bind format the database accepts. Normally
2496 this means that the timestamp string is not quoted, unlike DBTimeStamp, which quotes the string.
2497<pre>
2498    $sql = "select * from atable where created > ".$db->Param('0');
2499    // or
2500    $sql = "select * from atable where created > ?";
2501    $db->Execute($sql,array($db->BindTimeStamp("$year-$month-$day $hr:$min:$secs"));
2502</pre>
2503<p><font><b>qstr<a name="qstr"></a>($s,[$magic_quotes_enabled</b>=false]<b>)</b></font></p>
2504<p><font>Quotes a string to be sent to the database. The $<b>magic_quotes_enabled</b> 
2505  parameter may look funny, but the idea is if you are quoting a string extracted
2506  from a POST/GET variable, then pass get_magic_quotes_gpc() as the second parameter.
2507  This will ensure that the variable is not quoted twice, once by <i>qstr</i>
2508  and once by the <i>magic_quotes_gpc</i>.</font></p>
2509<p><font>Eg.<font face="Courier New, Courier, mono"> $s = $db-&gt;qstr(HTTP_GET_VARS['name'],get_magic_quotes_gpc());</font></font></p>
2510<p><font>Returns the quoted string.</font></p>
2511<p><font><b>Quote<a name="quote"></a>($s)</b></font></p>
2512<p><font>Quotes the string $s, escaping the database specific quote character as appropriate.
2513  Formerly checked magic quotes setting, but this was disabled since 3.31 for
2514  compatibility with PEAR DB.
2515</font></p><p><font><b>Affected_Rows<a name="affected_rows"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2516<p><font>Returns the number of rows affected by a update or delete statement. Returns
2517  false if function not supported.</font></p>
2518<p><font>Not supported by interbase/firebird currently. </font></p>
2519<p><font><b>Insert_ID<a name="inserted_id"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2520<p><font>Returns the last autonumbering ID inserted. Returns false if function not supported.
2521</font></p>
2522<p><font>Only supported by databases that support auto-increment or object id's, such
2523  as PostgreSQL, MySQL and MS SQL Server currently. PostgreSQL returns the OID, which
2524  can change on a database reload.</font></p>
2525<p><font><b>RowLock<a name="rowlock"></a>($table,$where)</b></font></p>
2526<p><font>Lock a table row for the duration of a transaction. For example to lock record $id in table1:
2527</font></p><pre><font>  $DB-&gt;StartTrans();<br>   $DB-&gt;RowLock("table1","rowid=$id");<br>  $DB-&gt;Execute($sql1);<br> $DB-&gt;Execute($sql2);<br> $DB-&gt;CompleteTrans();<br></font></pre>
2528<p><font>Supported in db2, interbase, informix, mssql, oci8, postgres, sybase.
2529</font></p><p><font><b>MetaDatabases<a name="metadatabases"></a>()</b></font></p>
2530<p><font>Returns a list of databases available on the server as an array. You have to
2531  connect to the server first. Only available for ODBC, MySQL and ADO.</font></p>
2532<p><font><b>MetaTables<a name="metatables"></a>($ttype = false, $showSchema = false,
2533  $mask=false)</b></font></p>
2534<p><font>Returns an array of tables and views for the current database as an array.
2535  The array should exclude system catalog tables if possible. To only show tables,
2536  use $db-&gt;MetaTables('TABLES'). To show only views, use $db-&gt;MetaTables('VIEWS').
2537  The $showSchema parameter currently works only for DB2, and when set to true,
2538  will add the schema name to the table, eg. "SCHEMA.TABLE". </font></p>
2539<p><font>You can define a mask for matching. For example, setting $mask = 'TMP%' will
2540  match all tables that begin with 'TMP'. Currently only mssql, oci8, odbc_mssql
2541  and postgres* support $mask.
2542</font></p><p><font><b>MetaColumns<a name="metacolumns"></a>($table,$notcasesensitive=true)</b></font></p>
2543<p><font>Returns an array of ADOFieldObject's, one field object for every column of
2544  $table. A field object is a class instance with (name, type, max_length) defined.
2545  Currently Sybase does not recognise date types, and ADO cannot identify
2546  the correct data type (so we default to varchar).   
2547 </font></p><p><font> The $notcasesensitive parameter determines whether we uppercase or lowercase the table name to normalize it
2548 (required for some databases). Does not work with MySQL ISAM tables.
2549 </font></p><p><font>For schema support, pass in the $table parameter, "$schema.$tablename". This is only
2550 supported for selected databases.
2551</font></p><p><font><b>MetaColumnNames<a name="metacolumnames"></a>($table,$numericIndex=false)</b></font></p>
2552<p><font>Returns an array of column names for $table. Since ADOdb 4.22, this is an associative array, with the
2553keys in uppercase. Set $numericIndex=true if you want the old behaviour of numeric indexes (since 4.23).
2554</font></p><p>
2555<font>e.g. array('FIELD1' =&gt; 'Field1', 'FIELD2'=&gt;'Field2')
2556</font></p><p>
2557</p><p><font><b>MetaPrimaryKeys<a name="metaprimarykeys"></a>($table,
2558      $owner=false)</b></font>
2559</p>
2560<p><font>Returns an array containing column names that are the
2561  primary keys of $table. Supported by mysql, odbc (including db2, odbc_mssql,
2562etc), mssql, postgres, interbase/firebird, oci8 currently. </font></p>
2563<p><font>Views (and some tables) have primary keys, but sometimes this information is not available from the
2564database. You can define a function  ADODB_View_PrimaryKeys($databaseType, $database, $view, $owner) that
2565should return an array containing the fields that make up the primary key. If that function exists,
2566it will be called when MetaPrimaryKeys() cannot find a primary key for a table or view.
2567</font></p><pre><font>// In this example: dbtype = 'oci8', $db = 'mydb', $view = 'dataView', $owner = false <br>function ADODB_View_PrimaryKeys($dbtype,$db,$view,$owner)<br>{<br>  switch(strtoupper($view)) {<br> case 'DATAVIEW': return array('DATAID');<br>    default: return false;<br>  }<br>}<br><br>$db = NewADOConnection('oci8');<br>$db-&gt;Connect('localhost','root','','mydb'); <br>$db-&gt;MetaPrimaryKeys('dataView');<br></font></pre>
2568<p><font><b>ServerInfo<a name="serverinfo" id="serverinfo"></a>()</b></font> 
2569</p>
2570<p><font>Returns an array of containing two elements 'description'
2571  and 'version'. The 'description' element contains the string description of
2572  the database. The 'version' naturally holds the version number (which is also
2573a string).</font></p>
2574<p><font><b>MetaForeignKeys<a name="metaforeignkeys"></a>($table, $owner=false, $upper=false)</b> 
2575</font></p><p><font>Returns an associate array of foreign keys, or false if not supported. For
2576  example, if table employee has a foreign key where employee.deptkey points to
2577  dept_table.deptid, and employee.posn=posn_table.postionid and employee.poscategory=posn_table.category,
2578  then $conn-&gt;MetaForeignKeys('employee') will return
2579</font></p><pre><font>  array(<br>      'dept_table' =&gt; array('deptkey=deptid'),<br>     'posn_table' =&gt; array('posn=positionid','poscategory=category')<br>  )<br></font></pre>
2580<p><font>The optional schema or owner can be defined in $owner. If $upper is true, then
2581  the table names (array keys) are upper-cased.
2582</font></p><hr />
2583<h2><font>ADORecordSet<a name="adorecordset"></a></font></h2>
2584<p><font>When an SQL statement successfully is executed by <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">ADOConnection-&gt;Execute($sql),</font>an
2585  ADORecordSet object is returned. This object contains a virtual cursor so we
2586  can move from row to row, functions to obtain information about the columns
2587  and column types, and helper functions to deal with formating the results to
2588  show to the user.</font></p>
2589<h3><font>ADORecordSet Fields</font></h3>
2590<p><font><b>fields: </b>Array containing the current row. This is not associative, but
2591  is an indexed array from 0 to columns-1. See also the function <b><a href="#fields">Fields</a></b>,
2592  which behaves like an associative array.</font></p>
2593<p><font><b>dataProvider</b>: The underlying mechanism used to connect to the database.
2594  Normally set to <b>native</b>, unless using <b>odbc</b> or <b>ado</b>.</font></p>
2595<p><font><b>blobSize</b>: Maximum size of a char, string or varchar object before it
2596  is treated as a Blob (Blob's should be shown with textarea's). See the <a href="#metatype">MetaType</a>
2597  function.</font></p>
2598<p><font><b>sql</b>: Holds the sql statement used to generate this record set.</font></p>
2599<p><font><b>canSeek</b>: Set to true if Move( ) function works.</font></p>
2600<p><font><b>EOF</b>: True if we have scrolled the cursor past the last record.</font></p>
2601<h3><font>ADORecordSet Functions</font></h3>
2602<p><font><b>ADORecordSet( )</b></font></p>
2603<p><font>Constructer. Normally you never call this function yourself.</font></p>
2604<p><font><b>GetAssoc<a name="getassoc"></a>([$force_array])</b></font></p>
2605<p><font>Generates an associative array from the recordset. Note that is this function
2606  is also <a href="#getassoc1">available</a> in the connection object. More details
2607  can be found there.</font></p>
2608<font> </font>
2609<p><font><b>GetArray<a name="getarray"></a>([$number_of_rows])</b></font></p>
2610<p><font>Generate a 2-dimensional array of records from the current
2611    cursor position, indexed from 0 to $number_of_rows - 1. If $number_of_rows
2612  is undefined, till EOF.</font></p>
2613<p><font><b>GetRows<a name="getrows"></a>([$number_of_rows])</b></font></p>
2614<font>Generate a 2-dimensional array of records from the current
2615cursor position. Synonym for GetArray() for compatibility with Microsoft ADO. </font>
2616<p><font> <b>GetMenu<a name="getmenu"></a>($name, [$default_str=''],
2617  [$blank1stItem=true], [$multiple_select=false], [$size=0], [$moreAttr=''])</b></font></p>
2618<p><font>Generate a HTML menu (&lt;select&gt;&lt;option&gt;&lt;option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;).
2619    The first column of the recordset (fields[0]) will hold the string to display
2620    in the option tags. If the recordset has more than 1 column, the second column
2621    (fields[1]) is the value to send back to the web server.. The menu will be
2622given the name $<i>name</i>. </font></p>
2623<p><font> If $<i>default_str</i> is defined, then if $<i>default_str</i> ==
2624    fields[0], that field is selected. If $<i>blank1stItem</i> is true, the first
2625    option is empty. You can also set the first option strings by setting $blank1stItem
2626  = "$value:$text".</font></p>
2627<p><font>$<i>Default_str</i> can be array for a multiple select
2628listbox.</font></p>
2629<p><font>To get a listbox, set the $<i>size</i> to a non-zero
2630    value (or pass $default_str as an array). If $<i>multiple_select</i> is true
2631    then a listbox will be generated with $<i>size</i> items (or if $size==0,
2632    then 5 items) visible, and we will return an array to a server. Lastly use
2633  $<i>moreAttr </i> to add additional attributes such as javascript or styles. </font></p>
2634<p><font>Menu Example 1: <code>GetMenu('menu1','A',true)</code> will
2635    generate a menu:
2636    <select name="menu1"><option> </option><option value="1" selected="selected">A </option><option value="2">B </option><option value="3">C </option></select>
2637for the data (A,1), (B,2), (C,3). Also see <a href="#ex5">example 5</a>.</font></p>
2638<p><font>Menu Example 2: For the same data, <code>GetMenu('menu1',array('A','B'),false)</code> will
2639    generate a menu with both A and B selected: <br>
2640    <select name="menu1" multiple="multiple" size="3"><option value="1" selected="selected">A </option><option value="2" selected="selected">B </option><option value="3">C </option></select>
2641</font></p>
2642<p><font> <b>GetMenu2<a name="getmenu2"></a>($name, [$default_str=''],
2643  [$blank1stItem=true], [$multiple_select=false], [$size=0], [$moreAttr=''])</b></font></p>
2644<p><font>This is nearly identical to GetMenu, except that the
2645  $<i>default_str</i> is matched to fields[1] (the option values).</font></p>
2646<p><font>Menu Example 3: Given the data in menu example 2, <code>GetMenu2('menu1',array('1','2'),false)</code> will
2647    generate a menu with both A and B selected in menu example 2, but this time
2648    the selection is based on the 2nd column, which holds the values to return
2649to the Web server. </font></p>
2650<p><font><b>UserDate<a name="userdate"></a>($str, [$fmt])</b></font></p>
2651<p><font>Converts the date string $<i>str</i> to another format.
2652    The date format is Y-m-d, or Unix timestamp format. The default $<i>fmt</i> is
2653Y-m-d.</font></p>
2654<p><font><b>UserTimeStamp<a name="usertimestamp"></a>($str, [$fmt])</b></font></p>
2655<p><font>Converts the timestamp string $<b>str</b> to another
2656    format. The timestamp format is Y-m-d H:i:s, as in '2002-02-28 23:00:12',
2657    or Unix timestamp format. UserTimeStamp calls UnixTimeStamp to parse $<i>str</i>,
2658and $<i>fmt</i> defaults to Y-m-d H:i:s if not defined. </font></p>
2659<p><font><b>UnixDate<a name="unixdate"></a>($str)</b></font></p>
2660<p><font>Parses the date string $<b>str</b> and returns it in
2661    unix mktime format (eg. a number indicating the seconds after January 1st,
2662    1970). Expects the date to be in Y-m-d H:i:s format, except for Sybase and
2663    Microsoft SQL Server, where M d Y is also accepted (the 3 letter month strings
2664  are controlled by a global array, which might need localisation).</font></p>
2665<p><font>This function is available in both ADORecordSet and
2666ADOConnection since 1.91.</font></p>
2667<p><font><b>UnixTimeStamp<a name="unixtimestamp"></a>($str)</b></font></p>
2668<p><font>Parses the timestamp string $<b>str</b> and returns
2669    it in unix mktime format (eg. a number indicating the seconds after January
2670    1st, 1970). Expects the date to be in "Y-m-d, H:i:s" (1970-12-24, 00:00:00)
2671    or "Y-m-d H:i:s" (1970-12-24 00:00:00) or "YmdHis" (19701225000000) format,
2672    except for Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server, where "M d Y h:i:sA" (Dec 25
2673    1970 00:00:00AM) is also accepted (the 3 letter month strings are controlled
2674by a global array, which might need localisation).</font></p>
2675<font> 
2676</font><p><font>This function is available in both ADORecordSet
2677    and ADOConnection since 1.91. </font></p>
2678<p><font><b>OffsetDate<a name="OffsetDate"></a>($dayFraction,
2679  $basedate=false)</b></font></p>
2680<p><font>Returns a string with the native SQL functions to calculate
2681    future and past dates based on $basedate in a portable fashion. If $basedate
2682    is not defined, then the current date (at 12 midnight) is used. Returns the
2683  SQL string that performs the calculation when passed to Execute(). </font></p>
2684<p><font>For example, in Oracle, to find the date and time that
2685  is 2.5 days from today, you can use:</font></p>
2686<pre><font># get date one week from now<br>$fld = $conn-&gt;OffsetDate(7); // returns "(trunc(sysdate)+7")</font></pre>
2687<pre><font># get date and time that is 60 hours from current date and time<br>$fld = $conn-&gt;OffsetDate(2.5, $conn-&gt;sysTimeStamp); // returns "(sysdate+2.5)"<br><br>$conn-&gt;Execute("UPDATE TABLE SET dodate=$fld WHERE ID=$id");</font></pre>
2688<p><font> This function is available for mysql, mssql, oracle, oci8 and postgresql drivers
2689  since 2.13. It might work with other drivers provided they allow performing
2690  numeric day arithmetic on dates.</font></p>
2691<font> </font>
2692<p><font><b>SQLDate<a name="sqldate"></a>($dateFormat, $basedate=false)</b></font></p>
2693<font>Returns a string which contains the native SQL functions
2694to format a date or date column $basedate. This is used when retrieving date columns in SELECT statements.
2695For sending dates to the database (eg. in UPDATE, INSERT or the where clause of SELECT statements)
2696use <a href="#dbdate">DBDate</a>. It uses a case-sensitive
2697$dateFormat, which supports: </font>
2698<pre><font> 
2699  Y: 4-digit Year
2700  Q: Quarter (1-4)
2701  M: Month (Jan-Dec)
2702  m: Month (01-12)
2703  d: Day (01-31)
2704  H: Hour (00-23)
2705  h: Hour (1-12)
2706  i: Minute (00-59)
2707  s: Second (00-60)
2708  A: AM/PM indicator
2709  w: day of week (0-6 or 1-7 depending on DB)
2710  l: day of week (as string - lowercase L)
2711  W: week in year (0..53 for MySQL, 1..53 for PostgreSQL and Oracle)
2712  </font></pre>
2713<p><font>All other characters are treated as strings. You can
2714    also use \ to escape characters. Available on selected databases, including
2715mysql, postgresql, mssql, oci8 and DB2. </font></p>
2716<p><font>This is useful in writing portable sql statements that
2717    GROUP BY on dates. For example to display total cost of goods sold broken
2718by quarter (dates are stored in a field called postdate): </font></p>
2719<pre><font> $sqlfn = $db-&gt;SQLDate('Y-\QQ','postdate'); # get sql that formats postdate to output 2002-Q1<br> $sql = "SELECT $sqlfn,SUM(cogs) FROM table GROUP BY $sqlfn ORDER BY 1 desc";<br> </font></pre>
2720<p><font><b>MoveNext<a name="movenext"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2721<p><font>Move the internal cursor to the next row. The <i>$this-&gt;fields</i> array
2722    is automatically updated. Returns false if unable to do so (normally because
2723EOF has been reached), otherwise true. </font></p>
2724<p><font> If EOF is reached, then the $this-&gt;fields array
2725    is set to false (this was only implemented consistently in ADOdb 3.30). For
2726    the pre-3.30 behaviour of $this-&gt;fields (at EOF), set the global variable
2727  $ADODB_COMPAT_FETCH = true.</font></p>
2728<p><font>Example:</font></p>
2729<pre><font>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>if ($rs) <br>    while (!$rs-&gt;EOF) {<br>      ProcessArray($rs-&gt;fields);   <br>        $rs-&gt;MoveNext();<br> } </font></pre>
2730<p><font><b>Move<a name="move"></a>($to)</b></font></p>
2731<p><font>Moves the internal cursor to a specific row $<b>to</b>.
2732    Rows are zero-based eg. 0 is the first row. The <b>fields</b> array is automatically
2733    updated. For databases that do not support scrolling internally, ADOdb will
2734    simulate forward scrolling. Some databases do not support backward scrolling.
2735    If the $<b>to</b> position is after the EOF, $<b>to</b> will move to the
2736    end of the RecordSet for most databases. Some obscure databases using odbc
2737  might not behave this way.</font></p>
2738<p><font>Note: This function uses <i>absolute positioning</i>,
2739unlike Microsoft's ADO.</font></p>
2740<p><font>Returns true or false. If false, the internal cursor
2741    is not moved in most implementations, so AbsolutePosition( ) will return
2742  the last cursor position before the Move( ). </font></p>
2743<p><font><b>MoveFirst<a name="movefirst"></a>()</b></font></p>
2744<p><font>Internally calls Move(0). Note that some databases do
2745not support this function.</font></p>
2746<p><font><b>MoveLast<a name="movelast"></a>()</b></font></p>
2747<p><font>Internally calls Move(RecordCount()-1). Note that some
2748  databases do not support this function.</font></p>
2749<p><font><b>GetRowAssoc</b><a name="getrowassoc"></a>($toUpper=true)</font></p>
2750<p><font>Returns an associative array containing the current
2751    row. The keys to the array are the column names. The column names are upper-cased
2752  for easy access. To get the next row, you will still need to call MoveNext(). </font></p>
2753<p><font>For example:<br>
2754Array ( [ID] =&gt; 1 [FIRSTNAME] =&gt; Caroline [LASTNAME] =&gt; Miranda [CREATED]
2755=&gt; 2001-07-05 ) </font></p>
2756<p><font>Note: do not use GetRowAssoc() with $ADODB_FETCH_MODE
2757    = ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC. Because they have the same functionality, they will
2758  interfere with each other.</font></p>
2759<font> 
2760</font><p><font><b>AbsolutePage<a name="absolutepage"></a>($page=-1) </b></font></p>
2761<p><font>Returns the current page. Requires PageExecute()/CachePageExecute() to be called.
2762  See <a href="#ex8">Example 8</a>.</font></p>
2763<font>
2764<p><b>AtFirstPage<a name="atfirstpage">($status='')</a></b></p>
2765<p>Returns true if at first page (1-based). Requires PageExecute()/CachePageExecute()
2766  to be called. See <a href="#ex8">Example 8</a>.</p>
2767<p><b>AtLastPage<a name="atlastpage">($status='')</a></b></p>
2768<p>Returns true if at last page (1-based). Requires PageExecute()/CachePageExecute()
2769  to be called. See <a href="#ex8">Example 8</a>.</p>
2770<p><b>Fields</b><a name="fields"></a>(<b>$colname</b>)</p>
2771<p>Returns the value of the associated column $<b>colname</b> for the current
2772  row. The column name is case-insensitive.</p>
2773<p>This is a convenience function. For higher performance, use <a href="#adodb_fetch_mode">$ADODB_FETCH_MODE</a>. </p>
2774<p><b>FetchRow</b><a name="fetchrow"></a>()</p> 
2775</font><p><font>Returns array containing current row, or false
2776    if EOF. FetchRow( ) internally moves to the next record after returning the
2777    current row. </font></p>
2778<p><font>Warning: Do not mix using FetchRow() with MoveNext().</font></p>
2779<p><font>Usage:</font></p>
2780<pre><font>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute($sql);<br>if ($rs)<br> while ($arr = $rs-&gt;FetchRow()) {<br>    &nbsp;&nbsp;# process $arr   <br>    }</font></pre>
2781<p><font><b>FetchInto</b><a name="fetchinto"></a>(<b>&amp;$array</b>)</font></p>
2782<p><font> Sets $array to the current row. Returns PEAR_Error
2783    object if EOF, 1 if ok (DB_OK constant). If PEAR is undefined, false is returned
2784    when EOF. FetchInto( ) internally moves to the next record after returning
2785  the current row. </font></p>
2786<p><font> FetchRow() is easier to use. See above.</font></p>
2787<font> </font>
2788<p><font><b>FetchField<a name="fetchfield"></a>($column_number)</b></font></p>
2789<p><font>Returns an object containing the <b>name</b>, <b>type</b> and <b>max_length</b> of
2790    the associated field. If the max_length cannot be determined reliably, it
2791    will be set to -1. The column numbers are zero-based. See <a href="#ex2">example
2792  2.</a></font></p>
2793<p><font><b>FieldCount<a name="fieldcount"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2794<p><font>Returns the number of fields (columns) in the record
2795set.</font></p>
2796<p><font><b>RecordCount<a name="recordcount"></a>( )</b></font></p>
2797<p><font>Returns the number of rows in the record set. If the
2798    number of records returned cannot be determined from the database driver
2799    API, we will buffer all rows and return a count of the rows after all the
2800    records have been retrieved. This buffering can be disabled (for performance
2801    reasons) by setting the global variable $ADODB_COUNTRECS = false. When disabled,
2802    RecordCount( ) will return -1 for certain databases. See the supported databases
2803  list above for more details. </font></p>
2804<p><font> RowCount is a synonym for RecordCount.</font></p>
2805<p><font><b>PO_RecordCount<a name="po_recordcount"></a>($table,
2806$where)</b></font></p>
2807<p><font>Returns the number of rows in the record set. If the
2808    database does not support this, it will perform a SELECT COUNT(*) on the
2809    table $table, with the given $where condition to return an estimate of the
2810  recordset size.</font></p>
2811<p><font>$numrows = $rs-&gt;PO_RecordCount("articles_table", "group=$group");</font></p>
2812<font><b> NextRecordSet<a name="nextrecordset" id="nextrecordset"></a>()</b> </font>
2813<p><font>For databases that allow multiple recordsets to be returned
2814    in one query, this function allows you to switch to the next recordset. Currently
2815  only supported by mssql driver.</font></p>
2816<pre><font>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute('execute return_multiple_rs');<br>$arr1 = $rs-&gt;GetArray();<br>$rs-&gt;NextRecordSet();<br>$arr2 = $rs-&gt;GetArray();</font></pre>
2817<p><font><b>FetchObject<a name="fetchobject"></a>($toupper=true)</b></font></p>
2818<p><font>Returns the current row as an object. If you set $toupper
2819    to true, then the object fields are set to upper-case. Note: The newer FetchNextObject()
2820  is the recommended way of accessing rows as objects. See below.</font></p>
2821<p><font><b>FetchNextObject<a name="fetchnextobject"></a>($toupper=true)</b></font></p>
2822<p><font>Gets the current row as an object and moves to the next
2823    row automatically. Returns false if at end-of-file. If you set $toupper to
2824  true, then the object fields are set to upper-case. Note that for some drivers such as mssql, you need to SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC) or SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_BOTH).</font></p>
2825<pre><font>$rs = $db-&gt;Execute('select firstname,lastname from table');<br>if ($rs) {<br> while ($o = $rs-&gt;FetchNextObject()) {<br>        print "$o-&gt;FIRSTNAME, $o-&gt;LASTNAME&lt;BR&gt;";<br>    }<br>}<br></font></pre>
2826<p><font>There is some trade-off in speed in using FetchNextObject().
2827If performance is important, you should access rows with the <code>fields[]</code> array. <b>FetchObj<a name="fetchobj" id="fetchobj"></a>()</b> </font></p>
2828<p><font>Returns the current record as an object. Fields are
2829    not upper-cased, unlike FetchObject. 
2830</font></p>
2831<p><font><b>FetchNextObj<a name="fetchnextobj" id="fetchnextobj"></a>()</b> </font></p>
2832<p><font>Returns the current record as an object and moves to
2833    the next record. If EOF, false is returned. Fields are not upper-cased, unlike
2834  FetctNextObject. </font></p>
2835<font>
2836<p><b>CurrentRow<a name="currentrow"></a>( )</b></p>
2837<p>Returns the current row of the record set. 0 is the first row.</p>
2838<p><b>AbsolutePosition<a name="abspos"></a>( )</b></p>
2839<p>Synonym for <b>CurrentRow</b> for compatibility with ADO. Returns the current
2840  row of the record set. 0 is the first row.</p>
2841<p><b>MetaType<a name="metatype"></a>($nativeDBType[,$field_max_length],[$fieldobj])</b></p>
2842<p>Determine what <i>generic</i> meta type a database field type is given its
2843  native type $<b>nativeDBType</b> as a string and the length of the field $<b>field_max_length</b>.
2844  Note that field_max_length can be -1 if it is not known. The field object returned
2845  by FetchField() can be passed in $<b>fieldobj</b> or as the 1st parameter <b>$nativeDBType</b>.
2846  This is useful for databases such as <i>mysql</i> which has additional properties
2847  in the field object such as <i>primary_key</i>. </p>
2848<p>Uses the field <b>blobSize</b> and compares it with $<b>field_max_length</b> to
2849  determine whether the character field is actually a blob.</p>
2850For example, $db-&gt;MetaType('char') will return 'C'.
2851<p>Returns:</p>
2852<ul>
2853  <li><b>C</b>: Character fields that should be shown in a &lt;input type="text"&gt; tag. </li>
2854  <li><b>X</b>: Clob (character large objects), or large text fields that should
2855    be shown in a &lt;textarea&gt;</li>
2856  <li><b>D</b>: Date field</li>
2857  <li><b>T</b>: Timestamp field</li>
2858  <li><b>L</b>: Logical field (boolean or bit-field)</li>
2859  <li><b>N</b>: Numeric field. Includes decimal, numeric, floating point, and
2860    real. </li>
2861  <li><b>I</b>:&nbsp; Integer field. </li>
2862  <li><b>R</b>: Counter or Autoincrement field. Must be numeric.</li>
2863  <li><b>B</b>: Blob, or binary large objects. </li>
2864</ul>
2865</font><p><font> Since ADOdb 3.0, MetaType accepts $fieldobj
2866    as the first parameter, instead of $nativeDBType. </font></p>
2867<font> </font>
2868<p><font><b>Close( )<a name="rsclose"></a></b></font></p>
2869<p><font>Closes the recordset, cleaning all memory and resources
2870associated with the recordset. </font></p>
2871<p>
2872<font>If memory management is not an issue, you do not need to
2873call this function as recordsets are closed for you by PHP at the end of the
2874script. SQL statements such as INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE do not really return a recordset,
2875so you do not have to call Close() for such SQL statements.</font></p>
2876<hr />
2877<h3><font>function rs2html<a name="rs2html"></a>($adorecordset,[$tableheader_attributes],
2878  [$col_titles])</font></h3>
2879<p><font>This is a standalone function (rs2html = recordset to
2880    html) that is similar to PHP's <i>odbc_result_all</i> function, it prints
2881    a ADORecordSet, $<b>adorecordset</b> as a HTML table. $<b>tableheader_attributes</b> allow
2882    you to control the table <i>cellpadding</i>, <i>cellspacing</i> and <i>border</i> attributes.
2883    Lastly you can replace the database column names with your own column titles
2884    with the array $<b>col_titles</b>. This is designed more as a quick debugging
2885  mechanism, not a production table recordset viewer.</font></p>
2886<p><font>You will need to include the file <i>tohtml.inc.php</i>.</font></p>
2887<p><font>Example of rs2html:<b><font color="#336600"><a name="exrs2html"></a></font></b></font></p>
2888<pre><font><b><font color="#336600">&lt;?<br>include('tohtml.inc.php')</font></b>; # load code common to ADOdb <br><b>include</b>('adodb.inc.php'); # load code common to ADOdb <br>$<font color="#663300">conn</font> = &amp;ADONewConnection('mysql');   # create a connection <br>$<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;PConnect('localhost','userid','','agora');# connect to MySQL, agora db<br>$<font color="#663300">sql</font> = 'select CustomerName, CustomerID from customers'; <br>$<font color="#663300">rs</font>   = $<font color="#663300">conn</font>-&gt;Execute($sql); <br><font color="#336600"><b>rs2html</b></font><b>($<font color="#663300">rs</font>,'<i>border=2 cellpadding=3</i>',array('<i>Customer Name','Customer ID</i>'));<br>?&gt;</b></font></pre>
2889<hr />
2890<h3><font>Differences between this ADOdb library and Microsoft
2891ADO<a name="adodiff"></a></font></h3>
2892<ol>
2893<font>
2894<li>ADOdb only supports recordsets created by a connection object. Recordsets
2895  cannot be created independently.</li>
2896<li>ADO properties are implemented as functions in ADOdb. This makes it easier
2897  to implement any enhanced ADO functionality in the future.</li>
2898<li>ADOdb's <font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">ADORecordSet-&gt;Move()</font> uses
2899  absolute positioning, not relative. Bookmarks are not supported.</li>
2900<li><font face="Courier New, Courier, mono">ADORecordSet-&gt;AbsolutePosition() </font>cannot
2901  be used to move the record cursor.</li>
2902<li>ADO Parameter objects are not supported. Instead we have the ADOConnection::<a href="#parameter">Parameter</a>(
2903  ) function, which provides a simpler interface for calling preparing parameters
2904  and calling stored procedures.</li>
2905<li>Recordset properties for paging records are available, but implemented as
2906  in <a href="#ex8">Example 8</a>.</li>
2907</font></ol>
2908<hr />
2909<h1><font>Database Driver Guide<a name="driverguide"></a></font></h1>
2910<p><font>This describes how to create a class to connect to a
2911    new database. To ensure there is no duplication of work, kindly email me
2912  at jlim#natsoft.com if you decide to create such a class.</font></p>
2913<p><font>First decide on a name in lower case to call the database
2914  type. Let's say we call it xbase. </font></p>
2915<p><font>Then we need to create two classes ADODB_xbase and ADORecordSet_xbase
2916  in the file adodb-xbase.inc.php.</font></p>
2917<p><font>The simplest form of database driver is an adaptation
2918    of an existing ODBC driver. Then we just need to create the class <i>ADODB_xbase
2919    extends ADODB_odbc</i> to support the new <b>date</b> and <b>timestamp</b> formats,
2920    the <b>concatenation</b> operator used, <b>true</b> and <b>false</b>. For
2921    the<i> ADORecordSet_xbase extends ADORecordSet_odbc </i>we need to change
2922  the <b>MetaType</b> function. See<b> adodb-vfp.inc.php</b> as an example.</font></p>
2923<p><font>More complicated is a totally new database driver that
2924    connects to a new PHP extension. Then you will need to implement several
2925    functions. Fortunately, you do not have to modify most of the complex code.
2926    You only need to override a few stub functions. See <b>adodb-mysql.inc.php</b> for
2927  example.</font></p>
2928<p><font>The default date format of ADOdb internally is YYYY-MM-DD
2929    (Ansi-92). All dates should be converted to that format when passing to an
2930    ADOdb date function. See Oracle for an example how we use ALTER SESSION to
2931  change the default date format in _pconnect _connect.</font></p>
2932<p><font><b>ADOConnection Functions to Override</b></font></p>
2933<p><font>Defining a constructor for your ADOConnection derived
2934  function is optional. There is no need to call the base class constructor.</font></p>
2935<p><font>_<b>connect</b>: Low level implementation of Connect.
2936  Returns true or false. Should set the _<b>connectionID</b>.</font></p>
2937<p><font>_<b>pconnect:</b> Low level implemention of PConnect.
2938  Returns true or false. Should set the _<b>connectionID</b>.</font></p>
2939<p><font>_<b>query</b>: Execute a query. Returns the queryID,
2940or false.</font></p>
2941<p><font>_<b>close: </b>Close the connection -- PHP should clean
2942up all recordsets. </font></p>
2943<p><font><b>ErrorMsg</b>: Stores the error message in the private
2944variable _errorMsg. </font></p>
2945<p><font><b>ADOConnection Fields to Set</b></font></p>
2946<p><font>_<b>bindInputArray</b>: Set to true if binding of parameters
2947  for SQL inserts and updates is allowed using ?, eg. as with ODBC.</font></p>
2948<p><font><b>fmtDate</b></font></p>
2949<p><font><b>fmtTimeStamp</b></font></p>
2950<p><font><b>true</b></font></p>
2951<p><font><b>false</b></font></p>
2952<p><font><b>concat_operator</b></font></p>
2953<p><font><b>replaceQuote</b></font></p>
2954<p><font><b>hasLimit</b> support SELECT * FROM TABLE LIMIT 10
2955of MySQL.</font></p>
2956<p><font><b>hasTop</b> support Microsoft style SELECT TOP 10
2957* FROM TABLE.</font></p>
2958<p><font><b>ADORecordSet Functions to Override</b></font></p>
2959<p><font>You will need to define a constructor for your ADORecordSet
2960  derived class that calls the parent class constructor.</font></p>
2961<p><font><b>FetchField: </b> as documented above in ADORecordSet</font></p>
2962<p><font>_<b>initrs</b>: low level initialization of the recordset:
2963    setup the _<b>numOfRows</b> and _<b>numOfFields</b> fields -- called by the
2964  constructor.</font></p>
2965<p><font>_<b>seek</b>: seek to a particular row. Do not load
2966    the data into the fields array. This is done by _fetch. Returns true or false.
2967    Note that some implementations such as Interbase do not support seek. Set
2968  canSeek to false.</font></p>
2969<p><font>_<b>fetch</b>: fetch a row using the database extension
2970    function and then move to the next row. Sets the <b>fields</b> array. If
2971    the parameter $ignore_fields is true then there is no need to populate the <b>fields</b> array,
2972  just move to the next row. then Returns true or false.</font></p>
2973<p><font>_<b>close</b>: close the recordset</font></p>
2974<p><font><b>Fields</b>: If the array row returned by the PHP
2975    extension is not an associative one, you will have to override this. See
2976    adodb-odbc.inc.php for an example. For databases such as MySQL and MSSQL
2977    where an associative array is returned, there is no need to override this
2978  function.</font></p>
2979<p><font><b>ADOConnection Fields to Set</b></font></p>
2980<p><font>canSeek: Set to true if the _seek function works.</font></p>
2981<h2><font>Optimizing PHP</font></h2>
2982    For info on tuning PHP, read this article on <a href="http://phplens.com/lens/php-book/optimizing-debugging-php.php">Optimizing
2983  PHP</a>. </font></p>
2984
2985<h2><font>Change Log<a name="Changes"></a><a name="changes"></a><a name="changelog"></a></font></h2>
2986<p><a name="4.992"></a><b>4.992 ?? Nov 2009</b>
2987<p>Fixed memcache compat issues.
2988<p>Added some security fixes to addq() and qstr().
2989<p><a name="4.991"></a><b>4.991 16 Oct 2008</b>
2990<p>Added BINARY type to mysql.inc.php (also in 4.991).
2991<p>Added support for SelectLimit($sql,-1,100) in oci8. (also in 4.991).
2992<p>New $conn->GetMedian($table, $field, $where='') to get median account no. (also in 4.991)
2993<p>Fixed bugs in memcache support.
2994<p>The rs2html() function in tohtml.inc.php did not handle dates with ':' in it properly. Fixed. (also in 4.991)
2995<p>Added support for connecting to oci8 using $DB->Connect($ip, $user, $pwd, "SID=$sid"); (also in 4.991)
2996<p>Added mysql type 'VAR_STRING' to MetaType(). (also in 4.991)
2997<p>The session and session2 code supports setfetchmode assoc properly now (also in 4.991).
2998<p><a name="4.990"></a><b>4.990/5.05 11 July 2008</b>
2999<p>Added  support for multiple recordsets in mysqli "Geisel Sierote" geisel#4up.com.br. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=15917
3000<p>Malcolm Cook added new Reload() function to Active Record. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=17474
3001<p>Thanks  Zoltan Monori [monzol#fotoprizma.hu] for bug fixes in iterator, SelectLimit, GetRandRow, etc.
3002<p>Under heavy loads, the performance monitor for oci8 disables Ixora views.
3003<p> Fixed sybase driver SQLDate to use str_replace(). Also for adodb5, changed sybase driver UnixDate and UnixTimeStamp calls to static.
3004<p>Changed oci8 lob handler to use &amp; reference $this->_refLOBs[$numlob]['VAR'] = &amp;$var.
3005<p>We now strtolower the get_class() function in PEAR::isError() for php5 compat.
3006<p>CacheExecute did not retrieve cache recordsets properly for 5.04 (worked in 4.98). Fixed.
3007<p>New ADODB_Cache_File class for file caching defined in adodb.inc.php.
3008<p>Farsi language file contribution by Peyman Hooshmandi Raad (phooshmand#gmail.com)
3009<p>New API for creating your custom caching class which is stored in $ADODB_CACHE:
3010<pre>
3011include "/path/to/adodb.inc.php";
3012$ADODB_CACHE_CLASS = 'MyCacheClass';
3013
3014class MyCacheClass extends ADODB_Cache_File
3015{
3016    function writecache($filename, $contents,$debug=false){...}
3017    function &readcache($filename, &$err, $secs2cache, $rsClass){ ...}
3018     :
3019}
3020
3021$DB = NewADOConnection($driver);
3022$DB->Connect(...);  ## MyCacheClass created here and stored in $ADODB_CACHE global variable.
3023
3024$data = $rs->CacheGetOne($sql); ## MyCacheClass is used here for caching...
3025</pre>
3026<p> 
3027<p>Memcache supports multiple pooled hosts now. Only if none of the pooled servers can be contacted will a connect error be generated.
3028Usage example below:
3029<pre>
3030$db = NewADOConnection($driver);
3031$db->memCache = true; /// should we use memCache instead of caching in files
3032$db->memCacheHost = array($ip1, $ip2, $ip3); /// $db->memCacheHost = $ip1; still works
3033$db->memCachePort = 11211; /// this is default memCache port
3034$db->memCacheCompress = false; /// Use 'true' to store the item compressed (uses zlib)
3035
3036$db->Connect(...);
3037$db->CacheExecute($sql);
3038</pre>
3039<p><a name="4.98"></a><b>4.98/5.04 13 Feb 2008</b>
3040<p> Fixed adodb_mktime problem which causes a performance bottleneck in $hrs.
3041<p>Added mysqli support to adodb_getcount().
3042<p>Removed MYSQLI_TYPE_CHAR from MetaType().
3043
3044<p><a name="4.97"></a><b>4.97/5.03 22 Jan 2008</b>
3045<p>Active Record: $ADODB_ASSOC_CASE=1 did not work properly. Fixed.
3046<p>Modified Fields() in recordset class to support display null fields in FetchNextObject().
3047<p>In ADOdb5, active record implementation, we now support column names with spaces in them - we autoconvert the spaces to _ using
3048 __set(). Thx Daniel Cook. http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=17200
3049<p>Removed $arg3 from mysqli SelectLimit. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=16243. Thx Zsolt Szeberenyi.
3050<p>Changed oci8 FetchField, which returns the max_length of BLOB/CLOB/NCLOB as 4000 (incorrectly) to -1.
3051<p>CacheExecute would sometimes return an error on Windows if it was unable to lock the cache file. This is harmless
3052and has been changed to a warning that can be ignored. Also adodb_write_file() code revised.
3053<p>ADOdb perf code changed to only log sql if execution time >= 0.05 seconds. New $ADODB_PERF_MIN variable holds min sql timing.
3054Any SQL with timing value below this and is not causing an error is not logged.
3055<p>Also adodb_backtrace() now traces 1 level deeper as sometimes actual culprit function is not displayed.
3056<p>Fixed a group by problem with adodb_getcount() for db's which are not postgres/oci8 based.
3057<p>Changed mssql driver Parameter() from SQLCHAR to SQLVARCHAR: case 'string': $type = SQLVARCHAR; break.
3058<p>Problem with mssql driver in php5 (for adodb 5.03) because some functions are not static. Fixed.
3059
3060
3061<p><a name="4.96"></a><b>4.96/5.02 24 Sept 2007</b>
3062<p>ADOdb perf for oci8 now has non-table-locking code when clearing the sql. Slower but better transparency. Added in 4.96a and 5.02a.
3063<p>Fix adodb count optimisation. Preg_match did not work properly. Also rewrote the ORDER BY stripping code in _adodb_getcount(), adodb-lib.inc.php.
3064<p>SelectLimit for oci8 not optimal for large recordsets when offset=0. Changed $nrows check.
3065<p>Active record optimizations.
3066Added support for assoc arrays in Set().
3067<p>Now GetOne returns null if EOF (no records found), and false if error occurs. Use ErrorMsg()/ErrorNo() to get the error.
3068<p>Also CacheGetRow and CacheGetCol will return false if error occurs, or empty array() if EOF, just like GetRow and GetCol.
3069<p>Datadict now allows changing of types which are not resizable, eg. VARCHAR to TEXT in ChangeTableSQL. --  Mateo Tibaquirá
3070<p>Added BIT data type support to adodb-ado.inc.php and adodb-ado5.inc.php.
3071<p>Ldap driver did not return actual ldap error messages. Fixed.
3072<p>Implemented GetRandRow($sql, $inputarr). Optimized for Oci8.
3073<p>Changed adodb5 active record to use static SetDatabaseAdapter() and removed php4 constructor. Bas van Beek bas.vanbeek#gmail.com.
3074<p>Also in adodb5, changed adodb-session2 to use static function declarations in class. Thx Daniel Berlin.
3075<p>Added "Clear SQL Log" to bottom of Performance screen.
3076<p>Sessions2 code echo'ed directly to the screen in debug mode. Now uses ADOConnection::outp().
3077<p>In mysql/mysqli, qstr(null) will return the string "null" instead of empty quoted string "''".
3078<p>postgresql optimizeTable in perf-postgres.inc.php added by Daniel Berlin (mail#daniel-berlin.de)
3079<p>Added 5.2.1 compat code for oci8.
3080<p>Changed @@identity to SCOPE_IDENTITY() for multiple mssql drivers. Thx  Stefano Nari.
3081<p>Code sanitization introduced in 4.95 caused problems in European locales (as float 3.2 was typecast to 3,2). Now we only sanitize if is_numeric fails.
3082<p>Added support for customizing ADORecordset_empty using $this->rsPrefix.'empty'. By Josh Truwin.
3083<p>Added proper support for ALterColumnSQL for Postgresql in datadict code. Thx. Josh Truwin.
3084<p>Added better support for MetaType() in mysqli when using an array recordset.
3085<p>Changed parser for pgsql error messages in adodb-error.inc.php  to case-insensitive regex.
3086<p><a name="4.95"></a><b>4.95/5.01 17 May 2007</b>
3087<p>CacheFlush debug outp() passed in invalid parameters. Fixed.
3088<p>Added Thai language file for adodb. Thx Trirat Petchsingh rosskouk#gmail.com and Marcos Pont</p>
3089<p>Added zerofill checking support to MetaColumns for mysql and mysqli.
3090<p>CacheFlush no longer deletes all files/directories. Only *.cache files deleted.</p>
3091<p>DB2 timestamp format changed to var $fmtTimeStamp = "'Y-m-d-H:i:s'";</p>
3092<p>Added some code sanitization to AutoExecute in adodb-lib.inc.php.</p>
3093<p>Due to typo, all connections in adodb-oracle.inc.php would become persistent, even non-persistent ones. Fixed.</p>
3094<P>Oci8 DBTimeStamp uses 24 hour time for input now, so you can perform string comparisons between 2 DBTimeStamp values.</P>
3095<p>Some PHP4.4 compat issues fixed in adodb-session2.inc.php</p>
3096<p>For ADOdb 5.01, fixed some adodb-datadict.inc.php MetaType compat issues with PHP5.
3097<p>The $argHostname was wiped out in adodb-ado5.inc.php. Fixed.
3098<p>Adodb5 version, added iterator support for adodb_recordset_empty.
3099<p>Adodb5 version,more error checking code now will use exceptions if available.
3100<p><a name="4.94"></a><b>4.94 23 Jan 2007</b>
3101<p>Active Record: $ADODB_ASSOC_CASE=2 did not work properly. Fixed. Thx gmane#auxbuss.com.
3102<p>mysqli had bugs in BeginTrans() and EndTrans(). Fixed.</p>
3103<p>Improved error handling when no database is connected for oci8. Thx Andy Hassall.</p>
3104<p>Names longer than 30 chars in oci8 datadict will be changed to random name. Thx Eugenio. http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=16182
3105<p>Added var $upperCase = 'ucase' to access and ado_access drivers. Thx Renato De Giovanni renato#cria.org.br</p>
3106<p>Postgres64 driver, if preparing plan failed in _query, did not handle error properly. Fixed. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=16131.
3107<p>Fixed  GetActiveRecordsClass() reference bug. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=16120
3108<p>
3109
3110Added handling of nulls in adodb-ado_mssql.inc.php for qstr(). Thx to Felix Rabinovich.
3111<p>
3112
3113Adodb-dict contributions by Gaetano:
3114<br>
3115+ Support for INDEX in data-dict. Example:
3116idx_ev1. The ability to define indexes using the INDEX keyword was added in ADOdb 4.94. The following example features mutiple indexes, including a compound index idx_ev1.
3117<pre>
3118  event_id I(11) NOTNULL AUTOINCREMENT PRIMARY,
3119  event_type I(4) NOTNULL  <b>INDEX idx_evt</b>,
3120  event_start_date T DEFAULT NULL <b>INDEX id_esd</b>,
3121  event_end_date T DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' <b>INDEX id_eted</b>,
3122  event_parent I(11) UNSIGNED NOTNULL DEFAULT 0 <b>INDEX id_evp</b>,
3123  event_owner I(11) DEFAULT 0 <b>INDEX idx_ev1</b>,
3124  event_project I(11) DEFAULT 0 <b>INDEX idx_ev1</b>,
3125  event_times_recuring I(11) UNSIGNED NOTNULL DEFAULT 0,
3126  event_icon C(20) DEFAULT 'obj/event',
3127  event_description X
3128</pre>
3129<br>
3130+ Prevents the generated SQL from including double drop-sequence statements for REPLACE case of tables with autoincrement columns (on those dbs that emulate it via sequences)
3131<br>
3132+ makes any date defined as DEFAULT value for D and T columns work cross-database, not just the "sysdate" value (as long as it is specified using adodb standard format). See above example.
3133<p>Fixed pdo's GetInsertID() support. Thx Ricky Su.
3134<p>oci8 Prepare() now sets error messages if an error occurs.
3135<p>Added 'PT_BR' to SetDateLocale() -- brazilian portugese.
3136<p>charset in oci8 was not set correctly on *Connect()
3137<p>ADOConnection::Transpose() now appends as first column the field names.
3138<p>Added $ADODB_QUOTE_FIELDNAMES. If set to true, will autoquote field names in AutoExecute(),GetInsertSQL(), GetUpdateSQL().
3139<p>Transpose now adds the field names as the first column after transposition.
3140<p>Added === check in ADODB_SetDatabaseAdapter for $db, adodb-active-record.inc.php. Thx Christian Affolter.
3141<p>Added ErrorNo() to adodb-active-record.inc.php. Thx ante#novisplet.com.
3142
3143
3144
3145<p><a name="4.93"></a><b>4.93 10 Oct 2006</b>
3146<p>Added support for multiple database connections in performance monitoring code (adodb-perf.inc.php). Now all sql in multiple database connections can be saved into one database ($ADODB_LOG_CONN).
3147<p>Added MetaIndexes() to odbc_mssql.
3148<p>Added connection property $db->null2null = 'null'. In autoexecute/getinsertsql/getupdatesql, this value will be converted to a null. Set this to a funny invalid value if you do not want null conversion. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=15902.
3149<p>Path disclosure problem in mysqli fixed. Thx Andy.
3150<p>Fixed typo in session_schema2.xml.
3151<p>Changed INT in oci8 to return correct precision in $fld->max_length, MetaColumns(). Thx Eloy Lafuente Plaza.
3152<p>Patched postgres64 _connect to handle serverinfo(). see http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=15887.
3153<p>Added pdo fix for null columns. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=15889
3154<p>For stored procedures, missing connection id now passed into mssql_query(). Thx Ecsy (ecsy#freemail.hu).
3155
3156<p><a name="4.92a"></a><b>4.92a 30 Aug 2006</b>
3157<p>Syntax error in postgres7 driver. Thx Eloy Lafuente Plaza.
3158<p>Minor bug fixes - adodb informix 10 types added to adodb.inc.php. Thx Fernando Ortiz.
3159
3160<p><a name="4.92"></a><b>4.92 29 Aug 2006</b>
3161
3162<p>Better odbtp date support.
3163<P>Added IgnoreErrors() to bypass default error handling.
3164<p>The _adodb_getcount() function in adodb-lib.inc.php, some ORDER BY bug fixes.
3165<p>For ibase and firebird, set  $sysTimeStamp = "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP".
3166<p>Fixed postgres connection bug: http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=11057.
3167<p>Changed CacheSelectLimit() to flush cache when $secs2cache==-1 due to complaints from other users.
3168<p>Added support for using memcached with CacheExecute/CacheSelectLimit. Requires memcache module PECL extension. Usage:
3169<pre>
3170$db = NewADOConnection($driver);
3171$db->memCache = true; /// should we use memCache instead of caching in files
3172$db->memCacheHost = "126.0.1.1"; /// memCache host
3173$db->memCachePort = 11211; /// this is default memCache port
3174$db->memCacheCompress = false; /// Use 'true' to store the item compressed (uses zlib)
3175
3176$db->Connect(...);
3177$db->CacheExecute($sql);
3178</pre>
3179<p>Implemented Transpose() for recordsets. Recordset must be retrieved using ADODB_FETCH_NUM. First column becomes the
3180column name.
3181<pre>
3182$DB = NewADOConnection('mysql');
3183$DB->Connect(...);
3184$DB->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_NUM);
3185$rs = $DB->Execute('select productname,productid,unitprice from products limit 10');
3186$rs2 = $DB->Transpose($rs);
3187rs2html($rs2);
3188</pre>
3189<p><a name="4.91"></a><b>4.91 2 Aug 2006</b>
3190<p>Major session code rewrite .... See session docs.
3191<p>PDO bindinputarray was not set properly for MySQL (changed from true to false).
3192<p>Changed CacheSelectLimit() to re-cache when $secs2cache==0. This is one way to flush the cache when SelectLimit is called.
3193<p>Added to quotes to mysql  and mysqli: "SHOW COLUMNS FROM `%s`";
3194<p>Removed accidental optgroup handling in GetMenu().
3195<a>Fixed ibase _BlobDecode for php5 compat, and also mem alloc issues for small blobs, thx salvatori#interia.pl
3196<p>Mysql driver OffsetDate() speedup, useful for adodb-sessions.
3197<p>Fix for GetAssoc() PHP5 compat. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=15425
3198<p>Active Record - If inserting a record and the value of a primary key field is null, then we do not insert that field in as we assume it is an auto-increment field. Needed by mssql.
3199<p>Changed postgres7 MetaForeignKeys() see http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=15531
3200<p>DB2 will now return db2_conn_errormsg() when it is a connection error.
3201<p><a name="4.90"></a><b>4.90 8 June 2006</b>
3202<p>Changed adodb_countrec() in adodb-lib.inc.php to allow LIMIT to be used as a speedup to reduce no of records counted.
3203<p>Added support for transaction modes for postgres and oci8 with SetTransactionMode().
3204These transaction modes affect all subsequent transactions of that connection.
3205<p>Thanks to Halmai Csongor for suggestion.
3206<p>Removed $off = $fieldOffset - 1 line in db2 driver, FetchField(). Tx Larry Menard.
3207<p>Added support for PHP5 objects as Execute() bind parameters using __toString (eg. Simple-XML). Thx Carl-Christian Salvesen.
3208<p>Rounding in tohtml.inc.php did not work properly. Fixed.
3209<p>MetaIndexes in postgres fails when fields are deleted then added in again because the attnum has gaps in it.
3210See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1451245&group_id=42718&atid=433976. Fixed.
3211<p>MetaForeignkeys in mysql and mysqli did not work when fetchMode==ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC used. Fixed.
3212<p>Reference error in AutoExecute() fixed.
3213<p>Added macaddr postgres type to MetaType. Maps to 'C'.
3214<p>Added to _connect() in adodb-ado5.inc.php support for $database and $dataProvider parameters.  Thx Larry Menard.
3215<p>Added support for sequences in adodb-ado_mssql.inc.php. Thx Larry Menard.
3216<p>Added ADODB_SESSION_READONLY.
3217<p>Added session expiryref support to crc32 mode, and in LOB code.
3218<p>Clear _errorMsg in postgres7 driver, so that ErrorMsg() displays properly when no error occurs.
3219<p>Added BindDate and BindTimeStamp
3220<p><a name="4.81"></a><b>4.81 3 May 2006</b>
3221<p>Fixed variable ref errors in adodb-ado5.inc.php in _query().
3222<p>Mysqli setcharset fix using method_exists().
3223<p>The adodb-perf.inc.php CreateLogTable() code now works for user-defined table names.
3224<p>Error in ibase_blob_open() fixed. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=14997
3225<p><a name="4.80"></a><b>4.80 8 Mar 2006</b>
3226<p>Added activerecord support.
3227<p>Added mysql $conn->compat323 = true if you want MySQL 3.23 compat enabled. Fixes GetOne() Select-Limit problems.
3228<p>Added adodb-xmlschema03.inc.php to support XML Schema version 3 and updated adodb-datadict.htm docs.
3229<p>Better memory management in Execute. Thx Mike Fedyk.
3230<p><a name="4.72"></a><b>4.72 21 Feb 2006</b>
3231<p>Added 'new' DSN parameter for NConnect().
3232<p>Pager now sanitizes $PHP_SELF to protect against XSS. Thx to James Bercegay and others.
3233<p>ADOConnection::MetaType changed to setup $rs->connection correctly.
3234<p>New native DB2 driver contributed by Larry Menard, Dan Scott, Andy Staudacher, Bharat Mediratta.
3235<p>The mssql CreateSequence() did not BEGIN TRANSACTION correctly. Fixed. Thx Sean Lee.
3236<p>The _adodb_countrecs() function in adodb-lib.inc.php has been revised to handle more ORDER BY variations.
3237<p><a name="4.71"></a><b>4.71 24 Jan 2006</b>
3238<p>Fixes postgresql security issue related to binary strings. Thx to Andy Staudacher.
3239<p>Several DSN bugs found:
3240<p>1. Fix bugs in DSN connections introduced in 4.70 when underscores are found in the DSN.
3241<p>2. DSN with _ did not work properly in PHP5 (fine in PHP4). Fixed.
3242<p>3. Added support for PDO DSN connections in NewADOConnection(), and database parameter in PDO::Connect().
3243<p>The oci8 datetime flag not correctly implemented in ADORecordSet_array. Fixed.
3244<p>Added BlobDelete() to postgres, as a counterpoint to UpdateBlobFile().
3245<p>Fixed GetInsertSQL() to support oci8po.
3246<p>Fixed qstr() issue with postgresql with \0 in strings.
3247<p>Fixed some datadict driver loading issues in _adodb_getdriver().
3248<p>Added register shutdown function session_write_close in adodb-session.inc.php for PHP 5 compat. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=14200.
3249<p><a name="4.70"></a><b>4.70 6 Jan 2006</b>
3250<p>Many fixes from Danila Ulyanov  to ibase, oci8, postgres, mssql, odbc_oracle, odbtp, etc drivers.
3251<p>Changed usage of binary hint in adodb-session.inc.php for mysql. See
3252http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=14160
3253<p>Fixed invalid variable reference problem in undomq(), adodb-perf.inc.php.
3254<p>Fixed http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=14254 in adodb-perf.inc.php, _DBParameter() settings of fetchmode was wrong.
3255<p>Fixed security issues in server.php and tmssql.php discussed by Andreas Sandblad in a Secunia security advisory. Added $ACCEPTIP = 127.0.0.1
3256and changed suggested root password to something more secure.
3257<p>Changed pager to close recordset after RenderLayout().
3258<p><a name="4.68"></a><b>4.68 25 Nov  2005</b>
3259<p>PHP 5 compat for mysqli. MetaForeignKeys repeated twice and MYSQLI_BINARY_FLAG missing.
3260<p>PHP 5.1 support for postgresql bind parameters using ? did not work if >= 10 parameters. Fixed. Thx to Stanislav Shramko.
3261<p>Lots of PDO improvements.
3262<p>Spelling error fixed in mysql MetaForeignKeys, $associative parameter.
3263<p><a name="4.67"></a><b>4.67 16 Nov  2005</b>
3264<p>Postgresql not_null flag not set to false correctly. Thx Cristian MARIN.
3265<p>We now check in Replace() if key is in fieldArray. Thx Sébastien Vanvelthem.
3266<p>_file_get_contents() function was missing in xmlschema. fixed.
3267<p>Added week in year support to SQLDate(), using 'W' flag. Thx Spider.
3268<p>In sqlite metacolumns was repeated twice, causing PHP 5 problems. Fixed.
3269<p>Made debug output XHTML compliant.
3270<p><a name="4.66"></a><b>4.66 28 Sept  2005</b>
3271<p>ExecuteCursor() in oci8 did not clean up properly on failure. Fixed.
3272<p>Updated xmlschema.dtd, by "Alec Smecher" asmecher#smecher.bc.ca
3273<p>Hardened SelectLimit, typecasting nrows and offset to integer.
3274<p>Fixed misc bugs in AutoExecute() and GetInsertSQL().
3275<p>Added $conn->database as the property holding the database name. The older $conn->databaseName is retained for backward
3276compat.
3277<p>Changed _adodb_backtrace() compat check to use function_exists().
3278<p>Bug in postgresql MetaIndexes fixed. Thx Kevin Jamieson.
3279<p>Improved OffsetDate for MySQL, reducing rounding error.
3280<p>Metacolumns added to sqlite. Thx Mark Newnham.
3281<p>PHP 4.4 compat fixes for GetAssoc().
3282<p>Added postgresql bind support for php 5.1. Thx Cristiano da Cunha Duarte
3283<p>OffsetDate() fixes for postgresql, typecasting strings to date or timestamp.
3284<p>DBTimeStamp formats for mssql, odbc_mssql and postgresql made to conform with other db's.
3285<p>Changed PDO constants from PDO_ to PDO:: to support latest spec.
3286<p><a name="4.65"></a><b>4.65 22 July  2005</b>
3287<p>Reverted 'X' in mssql datadict to 'TEXT' to be compat with mssql driver. However now you can
3288set $datadict->typeX = 'varchar(4000)' or 'TEXT' or 'CLOB' for mssql and oci8 drivers.
3289<p>Added charset support when using DSN for Oracle.
3290<p>_adodb_getmenu did not use fieldcount() to get number of fields. Fixed.
3291<p>MetaForeignKeys() for mysql/mysqli contributed by Juan Carlos Gonzalez.
3292<p>MetaDatabases() now correctly returns an array for mysqli driver. Thx Cristian MARIN.
3293<p>CompleteTrans(false) did not return false. Fixed. Thx to JMF.
3294<p>AutoExecute() did not work with Oracle. Fixed. Thx José Moreira.
3295<p>MetaType() added to connection object.
3296<p>More PHP 4.4 reference return fixes. Thx Ryan C Bonham and others.
3297
3298<p><a name="4.64"></a><b>4.64 20 June 2005</b>
3299<p>In datadict, if the default field value is set to '', then it is not applied when the field is created. Fixed by Eugenio.
3300<p>MetaPrimaryKeys for postgres did not work because of true/false change in 4.63. Fixed.
3301<p>Tested ocifetchstatement in oci8. Rejected at the end.
3302<p>Added port to dsn handling. Supported in postgres, mysql, mysqli,ldap.
3303<p>Added  'w' and 'l' to mysqli SQLDate().
3304<p>Fixed error handling in ldap _connect() to be more consistent. Also added ErrorMsg() handling to ldap.
3305<p>Added support for union in _adodb_getcount, adodb-lib.inc.php for postgres and oci8.
3306<p>rs2html() did not work with null dates properly.
3307<p>PHP 4.4 reference return fixes.
3308
3309<p><a name="4.63"></a><b>4.63  18 May 2005</b>
3310<p>Added $nrows<0 check to mysqli's SelectLimit().
3311<p>Added OptimizeTable() and OptimizeTables() in adodb-perf.inc.php. By Markus Staab.
3312<p>PostgreSQL inconsistencies fixed. true and false set to TRUE and FALSE, and boolean type in datadict-postgres.inc.php set
3313to 'L' => 'BOOLEAN'. Thx Kevin Jamieson.
3314<p>New adodb_session_create_table() function in adodb-session.inc.php. By Markus Staab.
3315<p>Added null check to UserTimeStamp().
3316<p>Fixed typo in mysqlt driver in adorecordset. Thx to Andy Staudacher.
3317<p>GenID() had a bug in the raiseErrorFn handling. Fixed. Thx Marcos Pont.
3318<p>Datadict name quoting now handles ( ) in index fields correctly - they aren't part of the index field.
3319<p>Performance monitoring: (1) oci8 Ixora checks moved down; (2) expensive sql changed so that only those sql with
3320count(*)>1 are shown; (3) changed sql1 field to a length+crc32 checksum - this breaks backward compat.
3321<p>We remap firebird15 to firebird in data dictionary.
3322
3323<p><a name="4.62"></a><b>4.62  2 Apr 2005</b>
3324<p>Added 'w' (dow as 0-6 or 1-7) and 'l' (dow as string) for SQLDate for oci8, postgres and mysql.
3325<p>Rolled back MetaType() changes for mysqli done in prev version.
3326<p>Datadict change by chris, cblin#tennaxia.com data mappings from:
3327<pre>
3328oci8:  X->varchar(4000) XL->CLOB
3329mssql: X->XL->TEXT
3330mysql: X->XL->LONGTEXT
3331fbird: X->XL->varchar(4000)
3332</pre>
3333<p>to:
3334<pre>
3335oci8:  X->varchar(4000) XL->CLOB
3336mssql: X->VARCHAR(4000) XL->TEXT
3337mysql: X->TEXT          XL->LONGTEXT
3338fbird: X->VARCHAR(4000) XL->VARCHAR(32000)
3339</pre>
3340<p>Added $connection->disableBlobs to postgresql to improve performance when no bytea is used (2-5% improvement).
3341<p>Removed all HTTP_* vars.
3342<p>Added $rs->tableName to be set before calling AutoExecute().
3343<p>Alex Rootoff rootoff#pisem.net contributed ukrainian language file.
3344<p>Added new mysql_option() support using $conn->optionFlags array.
3345<p>Added support for ldap_set_option() using the $LDAP_CONNECT_OPTIONS global variable. Contributed by Josh Eldridge.
3346<p>Added LDAP_* constant definitions to ldap.
3347<p>Added support for boolean bind variables. We use $conn->false and $conn->true to hold values to set false/true to.
3348<p>We now do not close the session connection in adodb-session.inc.php as other objects could be using this connection.
3349<p>We now strip off \0 at end of Ixora SQL strings in $perf->tohtml() for oci8.
3350<p><a name="4.61"></a><b>4.61 23 Feb 2005</b>
3351<p>MySQLi added support for mysqli_connect_errno() and mysqli_connect_error().
3352<p>Massive improvements to alpha PDO driver.
3353<p>Quote string bind parameters logged by performance monitor for easy type checking. Thx Jason Judge.
3354<p>Added support for $role when connecting with Interbase/firebird.
3355<p>Added support for enum recognition in MetaColumns() mysql and mysqli. Thx Amedeo Petrella.
3356<p>The sybase_ase driver contributed by Interakt Online. Thx Cristian Marin cristic#interaktonline.com.
3357<p>Removed not_null, has_default, and default_value from ADOFieldObject.
3358<p>Sessions code, fixed quoting of keys when handling LOBs in session write() function.
3359<p>Sessions code, added adodb_session_regenerate_id(), to reduce risk of session hijacking by changing session cookie dynamically. Thx Joe Li.
3360<p>Perf monitor, polling for CPU did not work for PHP 4.3.10 and 5.0.0-5.0.3 due to PHP bugs, so we special case these versions.
3361<p>Postgresql, UpdateBlob() added code to handle type==CLOB.
3362<p><a name="4.60"></a><b>4.60 24 Jan 2005</b>
3363<p>Implemented PEAR DB's autoExecute(). Simplified design because I don't like using constants when
3364strings work fine.
3365<p>_rs2serialize will now update $rs->sql and $rs->oldProvider.
3366<p>Added autoExecute().
3367<p>Added support for postgres8 driver. Currently just remapped to postgres7 driver.
3368<p>Changed oci8 _query(), so that OCIBindByName() sets the length to -1 if element size is > 4000. This provides better support
3369for LONGs.
3370<p>Added SetDateLocale() support for netherlands (Nl).
3371<p>Spelling error in pivot code ($iff should be $iif).
3372</p><p>mysql insert_id() did not work with mysql 3.x. Fixed.
3373</p><p>"\r\n" not converted to spaces correctly in exporting data. Fixed.
3374</p><p>_nconnect() in mysqli did not return value correctly. Fixed.
3375</p><p>Arne Eckmann contributed danish language file.
3376</p><p>Added clone() support to FetchObject() for PHP5.<br>
3377</p>
3378<p>Removed SQL_CUR_USE_ODBC from odbc_mssql.<br>
3379</p>
3380<p><a name="4.55"></a><b>4.55 5 Jan 2005</b>
3381</p><p>Found bug in Execute() with bind params for db's that do not support binding natively.
3382</p><p>DropSequence() now correctly uses default parameter.
3383</p><p>Now Execute() ignores locale for floats, so 1.23 is NEVER converted to 1,23.
3384</p><p>SetFetchMode() not properly saved in adodb-perf, suspicious sql and expensive sql. Fixed.
3385</p><p>Added INET to postgresql metatypes. Thx motzel.
3386</p><p>Allow oracle hints to work when counting with _adodb_getcount in adodb-lib.inc.php. Thx Chris Wrye.
3387</p><p>Changed mysql insert_id() to use SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID().
3388</p><p>If alter col in datadict does not modify col type/size of actual
3389col, then it is removed from alter col code. By Mark Newham. Not
3390perfect as MetaType() !== ActualType().
3391</p><p>Added handling of view fields in metacolumns() for postgresql. Thx Renato De Giovanni.
3392</p><p>Added to informix MetaPrimaryKeys and MetaColumns fixes for null bit. Thx to Cecilio Albero.
3393</p><p>Removed obsolete connection_timeout() from perf code.
3394</p><p>Added support for arrayClass in adodb-csv.inc.php.
3395</p><p>RSFilter now accepts methods of the form $array($obj, 'methodname'). Thx to blake#near-time.com.
3396</p><p>Changed CacheFlush to $cmd = 'rm -rf '.$ADODB_CACHE_DIR.'/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]/';
3397</p><p>For better cursor concurrency, added code to free ref cursors in
3398oci8 when $rs-&gt;Close() is called. Note that CLose() is called
3399internally by the Get* functions too.
3400</p><p>Added IIF support for access when pivoting.  Thx Volodia Krupach.
3401</p><p>Added mssql datadict support for timestamp. Thx Alexios.
3402</p><p>Informix pager fix. By Mario Ramirez.
3403</p><p>ADODB_TABLE_REGEX now includes ':'. By Mario Ramirez.
3404</p><p>Mark Newnham contributed MetaIndexes for oci8 and db2.
3405</p><p><a name="4.54"></a><b>4.54 5 Nov 2004</b>
3406</p><p>
3407Now you can set $db-&gt;charSet = ?? before doing a Connect() in oci8.
3408</p><p>
3409Added adodbFetchMode to sqlite.
3410</p><p>
3411Perf code, added a string typecast to substr in adodb_log_sql().
3412</p><p>
3413Postgres: Changed BlobDecode() to use po_loread, added new $maxblobsize parameter, and now it returns the blob instead
3414of sending it to stdout - make sure to mention that as a compat warning.
3415Also added $db-&gt;IsOID($oid) function; uses a heuristic, not guaranteed to work 100%.
3416</p><p>
3417Contributed arabic language file by "El-Shamaa, Khaled" k.el-shamaa#cgiar.org
3418</p><p>
3419PHP5 exceptions did not handle @ protocol properly. Fixed.
3420</p><p>
3421Added ifnull handling for postgresql (using coalesce).
3422</p><p>
3423Added  metatables() support for Postgresql 8.0 (no longer uses pg_% dictionary tables).
3424</p><p>
3425Improved Sybase ErrorMsg() function. By Gaetano Giunta.
3426</p><p>
3427Improved oci8 SelectLimit() to use Prepare(). By Cristiano Duarte.
3428</p><p>
3429Type-cast $row parameter in ifx_fetch_row() to int. Thx stefan bodgan.
3430</p><p>Ralf becker contributed improvements in postgresql, sapdb, mysql data dictionary handling:<br>
3431- MySql and Postgres MetaType was reporting every int column which was
3432part of a primary key and unique as serial<br>
3433- Postgres was not reporting the scale of decimal types<br>
3434- MaxDB was padding the defaults of none-string types with spaces<br>
3435- MySql now correctly converts enum columns to varchar
3436</p><p>
3437Ralf also changed Postgresql datadict:<br>
3438- you cant add NOT NULL columns in postgres in one go, they need to be
3439added as NULL and then altered to NOT NULL<br>
3440- AlterColumnSQL could not change a varchar column with numbers into an
3441integer column, postgres need an explicit conversation<br>
3442- a re-created sequence was not set to the correct value, if the name
3443was the old name (no implicit sequence), now always the new name of the
3444implicit sequence is used<br>
3445</p><p>Sergio Strampelli added extra $intoken check to Lens_ParseArgs() in datadict code.
3446</p><p><a name="4.53"></a><b>4.53 28 Sept 2004</b>
3447</p><p>FetchMode cached in recordset is sometimes mapped to native db fetchMode. Normally this does not matter,
3448but when using cached recordsets, we need to switch back to using adodb fetchmode.  So we cache this
3449in $rs-&gt;adodbFetchMode if it differs from the db's fetchMode.
3450</p><p>For informix we now set canSeek = false driver because stefan bodgan tells me that seeking doesn't work.
3451</p><p>SetDateLocale() never worked till now ;-) Thx david#tomato.it
3452</p><p>Set $_bindInputArray = true in sapdb driver. Required for clob support.
3453</p><p>Fixed some PEAR::DB emulation issues with isError() and isWarning. Thx to Gert-Rainer Bitterlich.
3454</p><p>Empty() used in getupdatesql without strlen() check. Fixed.</p>
3455<p>Added unsigned detection to mysql and mysqli drivers. Thx to dan cech.
3456</p><p>Added hungarian language file. Thx to Hal&aacute;szv&aacute;ri G&aacute;bor.
3457</p><p>Improved fieldname-type formatting of datadict SQL generated (adding $widespacing parameter to _GenField).
3458</p><p>Datadict oci8 DROP CONSTRAINTS misspelt. Fixed. Thx Mark Newnham.
3459</p><p>Changed odbtp to dynamically change databaseType based on connection, eg. from 'odbtp' to 'odbtp_mssql' when connecting
3460to mssql database.
3461</p><p>In datadict, MySQL I4 was wrongly mapped to MEDIUMINT, which is actually I3. Fixed.
3462</p><p>Fixed mysqli MetaType() recognition. Mysqli returns numeric types unlike mysql extension. Thx Francesco Riosa.
3463</p><p>VFP odbc driver curmode set wrongly, causing problems with memo fields. Fixed.
3464</p><p>Odbc driver did not recognize odbc version 2 driver date types properly. Fixed. Thx Bostjan.
3465</p><p>ChangeTableSQL() fixes to datadict-db2.inc.php by Mark Newnham.
3466</p><p>Perf monitoring with odbc improved. Now we try in perf code to manually set the sysTimeStamp using date() if sysTimeStamp
3467is empty.
3468</p><p>All ADO errors are thrown as exceptions in PHP5.
3469So we added exception handling to ado in PHP5 by creating new adodb-ado5.inc.php driver.
3470</p><p>Added IsConnected(). Returns true if connection object connected. By Luca.Gioppo.
3471</p><p>"Ralf Becker"
3472RalfBecker#digitalROCK.de contributed new sapdb data-dictionary driver
3473and a large patch that implements field and table renaming for oracle,
3474mssql, postgresql, mysql and sapdb. See the new RenameTableSQL() and
3475RenameColumnSQL() functions.
3476</p><p>We now check ExecuteCursor to see if PrepareSP was initially called.
3477</p><p>Changed oci8 datadict to use MODIFY for $dd-&gt;alterCol. Thx Mark Newnham.
3478</p><p><a name="4.52"></a><b>4.52  10 Aug 2004</b>
3479</p><p>Bug found in Replace() when performance logging enabled, introduced in ADOdb 4.50. Fixed.
3480</p><p>Replace() checks update stmt. If update stmt fails, we now return immediately. Thx to alex.
3481</p><p>Added support for $ADODB_FORCE_TYPE in GetUpdateSQL/GetInsertSQL. Thx to niko.
3482</p><p>Added ADODB_ASSOC_CASE support to postgres/postgres7 driver.
3483</p><p>Support for DECLARE stmt in oci8. Thx Lochbrunner.
3484</p><p><a name="4.51"></a><b>4.51  29 July  2004</b>
3485</p><p>Added adodb-xmlschema 1.0.2. Thx dan and richard.
3486</p><p>Added new adorecordset_ext_* classes. If ADOdb extension installed for mysql, mysqlt and oci8
3487(but not oci8po),  we use the superfast ADOdb extension code for movenext.
3488</p><p>Added schema support to mssql and odbc_mssql MetaPrimaryKeys().
3489</p><p>Patched MSSQL driver to support PHP NULL and Boolean values
3490while binding the input array parameters in the _query() function. By Stephen Farmer.
3491</p><p>Added support for clob's for mssql,  UpdateBlob(). Thx to gfran#directa.com.br
3492</p><p>Added normalize support for postgresql (true=lowercase table name, or false=case-sensitive table names)
3493to MetaColumns($table, $normalize=true).
3494</p><p>PHP5 variant dates in ADO not working. Fixed in adodb-ado.inc.php.
3495</p><p>Constant ADODB_FORCE_NULLS was not working properly for many releases (for GetUpdateSQL). Fixed.
3496Also GetUpdateSQL strips off ORDER BY now - thx Elieser Le&atilde;o.
3497</p><p>Perf Monitor for oci8 now dynamically highlights optimizer_* params if too high/low.
3498</p><p>Added dsn support to NewADOConnection/ADONewConnection.
3499</p><p>Fixed out of page bounds bug in _adodb_pageexecute_all_rows() Thx to "Sergio Strampelli" sergio#rir.it
3500</p><p>Speedup of movenext for mysql and oci8 drivers.
3501</p><p>Moved debugging code _adodb_debug_execute() to adodb-lib.inc.php.
3502</p><p>Fixed postgresql bytea detection bug. See http://phplens.com/lens/lensforum/msgs.php?id=9849.
3503</p><p>Fixed ibase datetimestamp typo in PHP5. Thx stefan.
3504</p><p>Removed whitespace at end of odbtp drivers.
3505</p><p>Added db2 metaprimarykeys fix.
3506</p><p>Optimizations to MoveNext() for mysql and oci8. Misc speedups to Get* functions.
3507</p><p><a name="4.50"></a><b>4.50  6 July  2004</b>
3508</p><p>Bumped it to 4.50 to avoid confusion with PHP 4.3.x series.
3509</p><p>Added db2 metatables and metacolumns extensions.
3510</p><p>Added alpha PDO driver. Very buggy, only works with odbc.
3511</p><p>Tested mysqli. Set poorAffectedRows = true. Cleaned up movenext() and _fetch().
3512</p><p>PageExecute does not work properly with php5 (return val not a variable). Reported Dmytro Sychevsky sych#php.com.ua.  Fixed.
3513</p><p>MetaTables() for mysql, $showschema parameter was not backward compatible with older versions of adodb. Fixed.
3514</p><p>Changed mysql GetOne() to work with mysql 3.23 when using with non-select stmts (e.g. SHOW TABLES).
3515</p><p>Changed TRIG_ prefix to a variable in datadict-oci8.inc.php. Thx to Luca.Gioppo#csi.it.
3516</p><p>New to adodb-time code. We allow you to define your own daylights savings function,
3517adodb_daylight_sv for pre-1970 dates. If the function is defined
3518(somewhere in an include), then you can correct
3519for daylights savings. See http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/node/view/16#daylightsavings
3520for more info.
3521</p><p>New sqlitepo driver. This is because assoc mode does not work like other drivers in sqlite.
3522   Namely, when selecting (joining) multiple tables, in assoc mode the table
3523      names are included in the assoc keys in the "sqlite" driver.
3524      In "sqlitepo" driver, the table names are stripped from the returned column names.
3525      When this results in a conflict,  the first field get preference.
3526    Contributed by Herman Kuiper  herman#ozuzo.net 
3527</p><p>Added $forcenull parameter to GetInsertSQL/GetUpdateSQL. Idea by Marco Aurelio Silva.
3528</p><p>More XHTML changes for GetMenu. By Jeremy Evans.
3529</p><p>Fixes some ibase date issues. Thx to stefan bogdan.
3530</p><p>Improvements to mysqli driver to support $ADODB_COUNTRECS.
3531</p><p>Fixed adodb-csvlib.inc.php problem when reading stream from socket. We need to poll stream continiously.
3532</p><p><a name="4.23"></a><b>4.23  16 June   2004</b>
3533</p><p>
3534New interbase/firebird fixes thx to Lester Caine.
3535Driver fixes a problem with getting field names in the result array, and
3536corrects a couple of data conversions. Also we default to dialect3 for firebird.
3537Also ibase sysDate property was wrong. Changed to cast as timestamp.
3538</p><p>
3539The datadict driver is set up to give quoted tables and fields as this
3540was the only way round reserved words being used as field names in
3541TikiWiki. TikiPro is tidying that up, and I hope to be able to produce a
3542build of THAT which uses what I consider proper UPPERCASE field and
3543table names. The conversion of TikiWiki to ADOdb helped in that, but
3544until the database is completely tidied up in TikiPro ...
3545</p><p>Modified _gencachename() to include fetchmode in name hash.
3546This means you should clear your cache directory after installing this release as the
3547cache name algorithm has changed.
3548</p><p>Now Cache* functions work in safe
3549mode, because we do not create sub-directories in the $ADODB_CACHE_DIR
3550in safe mode. In non-safe mode we still create sub-directories. Done by
3551modifying _gencachename().
3552</p><p>Added $gmt parameter (true/false)
3553to UserDate and UserTimeStamp in connection class, to force conversion
3554of input (in local time) to be converted to UTC/GMT.
3555</p><p>Mssql datadict did not support INT types properly (no size param allowed).
3556Added _GetSize() to datadict-mssql.inc.php.
3557</p><p>For borland_ibase, BeginTrans(), changed:<br>
3558</p><pre>   $this-&gt;_transactionID = $this-&gt;_connectionID;</pre>
3559to<br>
3560<pre>   $this-&gt;_transactionID = ibase_trans($this-&gt;ibasetrans, $this-&gt;_connectionID);</pre>
3561       
3562<p>Fixed typo in mysqi_field_seek(). Thx to Sh4dow (sh4dow#php.pl).
3563</p><p>LogSQL did not work with Firebird/Interbase. Fixed.
3564</p><p>Postgres: made errorno() handling more consistent. Thx to Michael Jahn, Michael.Jahn#mailbox.tu-dresden.de.
3565</p><p>Added informix patch to better support metatables, metacolumns by "Cecilio Albero" c-albero#eos-i.com
3566</p><p>Cyril Malevanov contributed patch to oci8 to support passing of LOB parameters:
3567</p><pre>   $text = 'test test test';<br>   $sql = "declare rs clob; begin :rs := lobinout(:sa0); end;";<br>    $stmt = $conn -&gt; PrepareSP($sql);<br>    $conn -&gt; InParameter($stmt,$text,'sa0', -1, OCI_B_CLOB);<br> $rs = '';<br>   $conn -&gt; OutParameter($stmt,$rs,'rs', -1, OCI_B_CLOB);<br>   $conn -&gt; Execute($stmt);<br> echo "return = ".$rs."&lt;br&gt;";<br></pre>
3568As he says, the LOBs limitations are:
3569<pre> - use OCINewDescriptor before binding<br> - if Param is IN, uses save() before each execute. This is done automatically for you.<br> - if Param is OUT, uses load() after each execute. This is done automatically for you.<br> - when we bind $var as LOB, we create new descriptor and return it as a<br>   Bind Result, so if we want to use OUT parameters, we have to store<br>   somewhere &amp;$var to load() data from LOB to it.<br> - IN OUT params are not working now (should not be a big problem to fix it)<br> - now mass binding not working too (I've wrote about it before)<br></pre>
3570<p>Simplified Connect() and PConnect() error handling.
3571</p><p>When extension not loaded, Connect() and PConnect() will return null. On connect error, the fns will return false.
3572</p><p>CacheGetArray() added to code.
3573</p><p>Added Init() to adorecordset_empty().
3574</p><p>Changed postgres64 driver, MetaColumns() to not strip off quotes in default value if :: detected (type-casting of default).
3575</p><p>Added test: if (!defined('ADODB_DIR')) die(). Useful to prevent hackers from detecting file paths.
3576</p><p>Changed metaTablesSQL to ignore Postgres 7.4 information schemas (sql_*).
3577</p><p>New polish language file by  Grzegorz Pacan
3578</p><p>Added support for UNION in _adodb_getcount().
3579</p><p>Added security check for ADODB_DIR to limit path disclosure issues. Requested by postnuke team.
3580</p><p>Added better error message support to oracle driver. Thx to Gaetano Giunta.
3581</p><p>Added showSchema support to mysql.
3582</p><p>Bind in oci8 did not handle $name=false properly. Fixed.
3583</p><p>If extension not loaded, Connect(), PConnect(), NConnect() will return null.
3584</p><p><b>4.22  15 Apr   2004</b>
3585</p><p>Moved docs to own adodb/docs folder.
3586</p><p>Fixed session bug when quoting compressed/encrypted data in Replace().
3587</p><p>Netezza Driver and LDAP drivers contributed by Josh Eldridge.
3588</p><p>GetMenu now uses rtrim() on values instead of trim().
3589</p><p>Changed MetaColumnNames to return an associative array, keys being the field names in uppercase.
3590</p><p>Suggested fix to adodb-ado.inc.php affected_rows to support PHP5 variants. Thx to Alexios Fakos.
3591</p><p>Contributed bulgarian language file by Valentin Sheiretsky valio#valio.eu.org.
3592</p><p>Contributed romanian language file by stefan bogdan.
3593</p><p>GetInsertSQL now checks for table name (string) in $rs, and will create a recordset for that
3594table automatically. Contributed by Walt Boring. Also added OCI_B_BLOB in bind on Walt's request - hope
3595it doesn't break anything :-)
3596</p><p>Some minor postgres speedups in _initrs().
3597</p><p> ChangeTableSQL checks now if MetaColumns returns empty. Thx Jason Judge.
3598</p><p>Added ADOConnection::Time(), returns current database time in unix timestamp format, or false.
3599</p><p><b>4.21 20 Mar 2004</b>
3600</p><p>We no longer in SelectLimit for VFP driver add SELECT TOP X unless an ORDER BY exists.
3601</p><p>Pim Koeman contributed dutch language file adodb-nl.inc.php.
3602</p><p>Rick Hickerson added CLOB support to db2 datadict.
3603</p><p>Added odbtp driver. Thx to "stefan bogdan" sbogdan#rsb.ro.
3604</p><p>Changed PrepareSP() 2nd parameter, $cursor, to default to true (formerly false). Fixes oci8 backward
3605compat problems with OUT params.
3606</p><p>Fixed month calculation error in adodb-time.inc.php. 2102-June-01 appeared as 2102-May-32.
3607</p><p>Updated PHP5 RC1 iterator support. API changed, hasMore() renamed to valid().
3608</p><p>Changed internal format of serialized cache recordsets. As we store a version number, this should be
3609backward compatible.
3610</p><p>Error handling when driver file not found was flawed in ADOLoadCode(). Fixed.
3611</p><p><b>4.20 27 Feb 2004</b>
3612</p><p>Updated to AXMLS 1.01.
3613</p><p>MetaForeignKeys for postgres7 modified by Edward Jaramilla, works on pg 7.4.
3614</p><p>Now numbers accepts function calls or sequences for GetInsertSQL/GetUpdateSQL numeric fields.
3615</p><p>Changed quotes of 'delete from $perf_table' to "". Thx Kehui (webmaster#kehui.net)
3616</p><p>Added ServerInfo() for ifx, and putenv trim fix. Thx Fernando Ortiz.
3617</p><p>Added addq(), which is analogous to addslashes().
3618</p><p>Tested with php5b4. Fix some php5 compat problems with exceptions and sybase.
3619</p><p>Carl-Christian Salvesen added patch to mssql _query to support binds greater than 4000 chars.
3620</p><p>Mike suggested patch to PHP5 exception handler. $errno must be numeric.
3621</p><p>Added double quotes (") to ADODB_TABLE_REGEX.
3622</p><p>For oci8, Prepare(...,$cursor),
3623$cursor's meaning was accidentally inverted in 4.11. This causes
3624problems with ExecuteCursor() too, which calls Prepare() internally.
3625Thx to William Lovaton.
3626</p><p>Now dateHasTime property in connection object renamed to datetime for consistency. This could break bc.
3627</p><p>Csongor Halmai reports that db2 SelectLimit with input array is not working. Fixed..
3628</p><p><b>4.11 27 Jan 2004</b>
3629</p><p>Csongor Halmai reports db2 binding not working. Reverted back to emulated binding.
3630</p><p>Dan Cech modifies datadict code. Adds support for DropIndex. Minor cleanups.
3631</p><p>Table misspelt in perf-oci8.inc.php. Changed v$conn_cache_advice to v$db_cache_advice. Reported by Steve W.
3632</p><p>UserTimeStamp and DBTimeStamp did not handle YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format properly. Reported by Mike Muir. Fixed.
3633</p><p>Changed oci8 Prepare(). Does not auto-allocate OCINewCursor automatically, unless 2nd param is set to true.
3634This will break backward compat, if Prepare/Execute is used instead of ExecuteCursor. Reported by Chris Jones.
3635</p><p>Added InParameter() and OutParameter(). Wrapper functions to Parameter(), but nicer because they
3636are self-documenting.
3637</p><p>Added 'R' handling in ActualType() to datadict-mysql.inc.php
3638</p><p>Added ADOConnection::SerializableRS($rs). Returns a recordset that can be serialized in a session.
3639</p><p>Added "Run SQL" to performance UI().
3640</p><p>Misc spelling corrections in adodb-mysqli.inc.php, adodb-oci8.inc.php and datadict-oci8.inc.php, from Heinz Hombergs.
3641</p><p>MetaIndexes() for ibase contributed by Heinz Hombergs.
3642</p><p><b>4.10 12 Jan 2004</b>
3643</p><p>Dan Cech contributed extensive changes to data dictionary to support name quoting (with `), and drop table/index.
3644</p><p>Informix added cursorType property. Default remains IFX_SCROLL, but you can change to 0 (non-scrollable cursor) for performance.
3645</p><p>Added ADODB_View_PrimaryKeys() for returning view primary keys to MetaPrimaryKeys().
3646</p><p>Simplified chinese file, adodb-cn.inc.php from cysoft.
3647</p><p>Added check for ctype_alnum in adodb-datadict.inc.php. Thx to Jason Judge.
3648</p><p>Added connection parameter to ibase Prepare(). Fix by Daniel Hassan.
3649</p><p>Added nameQuote for quoting identifiers and names to connection obj. Requested by Jason Judge. Also the
3650data dictionary parser now detects `field name` and generates column names with spaces correctly.
3651</p><p>BOOL type not recognised correctly as L. Fixed.
3652</p><p>Fixed paths in ADODB_DIR for session files, and back-ported it to 4.05 (15 Dec 2003)
3653</p><p>Added Schema to postgresql MetaTables. Thx to col#gear.hu
3654</p><p>Empty postgresql recordsets that had blob fields did not set EOF properly. Fixed.
3655</p><p>CacheSelectLimit internal parameters to SelectLimit were wrong. Thx to Nio.
3656</p><p>Modified adodb_pr() and adodb_backtrace() to support command-line usage (eg. no html).
3657</p><p>Fixed some fr and it lang errors. Thx to Gaetano G.
3658</p><p>Added contrib directory, with adodb rs to xmlrpc convertor by Gaetano G.
3659</p><p>Fixed array recordset bugs when _skiprow1 is true. Thx to Gaetano G.
3660</p><p>Fixed pivot table code when count is false.
3661</p><p>
3662
3663</p><p><b>4.05 13 Dec 2003 </b>
3664</p><p>Added MetaIndexes to data-dict code - thx to Dan Cech.
3665</p><p>Rewritten session code by Ross Smith. Moved code to adodb/session directory.
3666</p><p>Added function exists check on connecting to most drivers, so we don't crash with the unknown function error.
3667</p><p>Smart Transactions failed with GenID() when it no seq table has been created because the sql
3668    statement fails. Fix by Mark Newnham.
3669</p><p>Added $db-&gt;length, which holds name of function that returns strlen.
3670</p><p>Fixed error handling for bad driver in ADONewConnection - passed too few params to error-handler.
3671</p><p>Datadict did not handle types like 16.0 properly in _GetSize. Fixed.
3672</p><p>Oci8 driver SelectLimit() bug &amp;= instead of =&amp; used. Thx to Swen Th&uuml;mmler.
3673</p><p>Jesse Mullan suggested not flushing outp when output buffering enabled. Due to Apache 2.0 bug. Added.
3674</p><p>MetaTables/MetaColumns return ref bug with PHP5 fixed in adodb-datadict.inc.php.
3675</p><p>New mysqli driver contributed by Arjen de Rijke. Based on adodb 3.40 driver.
3676Then jlim added BeginTrans, CommitTrans, RollbackTrans, IfNull, SQLDate. Also fixed return ref bug.
3677</p><p>$ADODB_FLUSH added, if true then force flush in debugging outp. Default is false.  In earlier
3678versions, outp defaulted to flush, which is not compat with apache 2.0.
3679</p><p>Mysql driver's GenID() function did not work when when sql logging is on. Fixed.
3680</p><p>$ADODB_SESSION_TBL not declared as global var. Not available if adodb-session.inc.php included in function. Fixed.
3681</p><p>The input array not passed to Execute() in _adodb_getcount(). Fixed.
3682</p><p><b>4.04 13 Nov 2003 </b>
3683</p><p>Switched back to foreach - faster than list-each.
3684</p><p>Fixed bug in ado driver - wiping out $this-&gt;fields with date fields.
3685</p><p>Performance Monitor, View SQL, Explain Plan did not work if strlen($SQL)&gt;max($_GET length). Fixed.
3686</p><p>Performance monitor, oci8 driver added memory sort ratio.
3687</p><p>Added random property, returns SQL to generate a floating point number between 0 and 1;
3688</p><p><b>4.03 6 Nov 2003 </b>
3689</p><p>The path to adodb-php4.inc.php and adodb-iterators.inc.php was not setup properly.
3690</p><p>Patched SQLDate in interbase to support hours/mins/secs. Thx to ari kuorikoski.
3691</p><p>Force autorollback for pgsql persistent connections -
3692apparently pgsql did not autorollback properly before 4.3.4. See http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25404
3693</p><p><b>4.02 5 Nov 2003 </b>
3694</p><p>Some errors in adodb_error_pg() fixed. Thx to Styve.
3695</p><p>Spurious Insert_ID() error was generated by LogSQL(). Fixed.
3696</p><p>Insert_ID was interfering with Affected_Rows() and Replace()  when LogSQL() enabled. Fixed.
3697</p><p>More foreach loops optimized with list/each.
3698</p><p>Null dates not handled properly in ADO driver (it becomes 31 Dec 1969!).
3699</p><p>Heinz Hombergs contributed patches for mysql MetaColumns - adding scale, made
3700interbase MetaColumns work with firebird/interbase, and added lang/adodb-de.inc.php.
3701</p><p>Added INFORMIXSERVER environment variable.
3702</p><p>Added $ADODB_ANSI_PADDING_OFF for interbase/firebird.
3703</p><p>PHP 5 beta 2 compat check. Foreach (Iterator) support. Exceptions support.
3704</p><p><b>4.01 23 Oct 2003 </b>
3705</p><p>Fixed bug in rs2html(), tohtml.inc.php, that generated blank table cells.
3706</p><p>Fixed insert_id() incorrectly generated when logsql() enabled.
3707</p><p>Modified PostgreSQL _fixblobs to use list/each instead of foreach.
3708</p><p>Informix ErrorNo() implemented correctly.
3709</p><p>Modified several places to use list/each, including GetRowAssoc().
3710</p><p>Added UserTimeStamp() to connection class.
3711</p><p>Added $ADODB_ANSI_PADDING_OFF for oci8po.
3712</p><p><b>4.00 20 Oct 2003 </b>
3713</p><p>Upgraded adodb-xmlschema to 1 Oct 2003 snapshot.
3714</p><p>Fix to rs2html warning message. Thx to Filo.
3715</p><p>Fix for odbc_mssql/mssql SQLDate(), hours was wrong.
3716</p><p>Added MetaColumns and MetaPrimaryKeys for sybase. Thx to Chris Phillipson.
3717</p><p>Added autoquoting to datadict for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Suggestion by Karsten Dambekalns 
3718</p><p><b>3.94 11 Oct 2003 </b>
3719</p><p>Create trigger in datadict-oci8.inc.php did not work, because all cr/lf's must be removed.
3720</p><p>ErrorMsg()/ErrorNo() did not work for many databases when logging enabled. Fixed.
3721</p><p>Removed global variable $ADODB_LOGSQL as it does not work properly with multiple connections.
3722</p><p>Added SQLDate support for sybase. Thx to Chris Phillipson
3723</p><p>Postgresql checking of pgsql resultset resource was incorrect. Fix by Bharat Mediratta bharat#menalto.com.
3724Same patch applied to  _insertid and _affectedrows for adodb-postgres64.inc.php.
3725</p><p>Added support for NConnect for postgresql.
3726</p><p>Added Sybase data dict support. Thx to Chris Phillipson 
3727</p><p>Extensive improvements in $perf-&gt;UI(), eg. Explain now opens in new window, we show scripts
3728which call sql, etc.
3729</p><p>Perf Monitor UI works with magic quotes enabled.
3730</p><p>rsPrefix was declared twice. Removed.
3731</p><p>Oci8 stored procedure support, eg. "begin func(); end;" was incorrect in _query. Fixed.
3732</p><p>Tiraboschi Massimiliano contributed italian language file.
3733</p><p>Fernando Ortiz, fortiz#lacorona.com.mx, contributed informix performance monitor.
3734</p><p>Added _varchar (varchar arrays) support for postgresql. Reported by PREVOT St&eacute;phane.<hr />
3735<p><strong>0.10 Sept 9 2000</strong> First release
3736</p><h3><strong>Old change log history moved to <a href="old-changelog.htm">old-changelog.htm</a>.
3737  </strong></h3>
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