note 124630 added to function.odbc-execute

I've been working with PHP for only 1.5 years but it already prove numerous times that it's outdated, badly supported and just generally an inconsistent and bad language. The database drivers are the worst case. You have sqlsrv, which is great, but only runs on Windows and after some hacking maybe on Linux/Mac too. You have mssql, which is outdated just like odbc and the PHP "devs" didn't even bother including it in new versions, but it supports stored procedure output parameters. And there is odbc, which runs on everything. The catch? No option for in-out parameters. Congratulations PHP. You don't care about your programmers and the driver writers don't care about PHP and developers who have to put up with this awful language. I have to write backend for Linux but in a Windows testing environment so it means I have to use sqlsrv/mssql for the test code and mssql for the prod code. But then again, the server will be updated by the admins to PHP 7 and I can say goodbye to stored procedures. OR Hack my way around and have the stored procedures write the result into a temporary table and then run a table valued function to get the results. It can work, but at what cost? It's hacky, unreliable (maybe the query doesn't run and you have no way knowing that) and plus lots of hours rewriting code. Thanks PHP, I hate you. I will try to avoid this devilish language at all cost in the future. ---- Server IP: 45.112.84.4 Probable Submitter: 185.85.3.172 (proxied: 195.228.94.3) ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.odbc-execute.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/124630 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124630/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124630/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124630/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124630/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124630/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124630/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/124630 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/124630 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php