note 8956 added to Sybase functions

Bugs in PHP or Sybase interface? I have many many time and try to solve some unexpected error in using Sybase with PHP. After few days study, I found a interesting bug that make me working for long time. The following script is a working version. ========================================================= <html> <head> <title>No Title</title> <meta http-equiv="content-Type" content="text/html"> </head> <body> <table border=0 width='100%' bgcolor='#51A8FF' cellspacing='1'> <tr bgcolor='#FFA953' align='center'> <td bgcolor='#B0D8FF'></td> <td bgcolor='#B0D8FF'></td> <td bgcolor='#B0D8FF'>Title</td> <td bgcolor='#B0D8FF'>Sender</td> <td bgcolor='#B0D8FF'>Reply</td> <td bgcolor='#B0D8FF'>Last Repl</td> </tr> <?php $a = sybase_connect("wwwsybase","sa",""); $b = sybase_select_db("james", $a); $q = sybase_query("SELECT title FROM msgbox", $a); while($row = sybase_fetch_object($q)) { print "<tr bgcolor='white' aligh='center'>"; print "<td></td>"; print "<td></td>"; print "<td>$row->title</td>"; print "<td></td>"; print "<td></td>"; print "<td></td>"; print "</tr>"; } $x = sybase_close($a); ?> </table> </body> </html> ===================================================== There has nothing special, and of course it works as expected. But if I just add one character 'y' to line 15 to correct the spelling: <td bgcolor='#B0D8FF'>Last Reply</td> It will cause an error and the page does not display. In fact, the original one is not as simple as I show here, I just try to address the problem by removing line by line. It seems that if there has too many characters within the same area of sybase_connect statement, it will generate an expected error. I have try to solve this problem by making a function for sybase_connection, and the function is defined outside <body>, which is called in the current location of original script. -- It works! But I encounted another problem after moving the sybase function to a function, this function cannot accept parameters or using global variable. If a declare a input parameter for this function, or if i declare using a global inside the function, the page cannot be show. I don't know if I have make any syntax error in my script, or is it really a buy in PHP. My installation setting: RedHat Linux 6.2 Sybase for Linux 11.9.2 PHP 4.0.2 Would anyone here can give me some example on using Sybase connetion with PHP. Thanks in advance, James MA http://www.php.net/manual/ref.sybase.php