RE: [PHP] Array vs. Scalar Lists

It's more like a feature request for all of PHP, not just ibase_execute(). A passed array should look exactly like a list of scalars...it does in perl anyway. Oh well. Anthony -----Original Message----- From: Lars Torben Wilson [mailto:torben@php.net] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 9:02 PM To: Anthony Martin Cc: 'php-general@lists.php.net' Subject: RE: [PHP] Array vs. Scalar Lists Anthony Martin writes: > Ok, like I said, I'm using echo as an example. What I'm really trying to do > is a little more complicated: > > $data = Array ( 'c1f2g3h4j5r', 'AC', ) ; > $stmt = 'SELECT * FROM PROFILE WHERE SESSION = ? AND STATUS = ? ;' ; > $prep = ibase_prepare ( $dbh, $stmt ) ; > $result = ibase_execute ( $prep, $data[0], $data[1] ) ; > > I want to avoid having to pass each value of the array to ibase_execute. I > would much rather do: > > $result = ibase_execute( $prep, $data ) ; > > But this function wants to see two values. It doesn't take into account > that it's been given an array with two values in it. So if I want a > programmatic solution, I have to use my eval() insanity (or is that evil > insanity like Microsoft's spell check keeps telling me it is). > > > Anthony If you know the layout of the query at coding time (i.e. you're not building $stmt at runtime) you can just modify the example in the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/function.ibase-execute.php <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); $data = array('c1f2g3h4j5r', 'AC'); $stmt = 'SELECT * FROM PROFILE WHERE SESSION = ? AND STATUS = ? ;'; list($session, $ac) = $data; $prep = ibase_prepare($dbh, $stmt); $result = ibase_execute($prep, $session, $ac); ?> Looking at ibase_execute(), though, it seems like in order to be really useful it should accept either a list of ints or an array...that would make a good feature request. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+