RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: metapear datatypes
| From: | Lukas Smith | Date: | Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:07:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: metapear datatypes | ||
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> If the database API is not good enough to reveal the type info
required,
> I use a simple heuristic:
>
> if (! is_numeric($val)) $conn->qstr($val);
>
> eg. I only quote non-numeric variables. This normally works with dates
> because most databases accept dates as strings fortunately.
Some databaes even allow integers to be quoted (I think most opensource
RDBMS do for example)
Lukas Smith
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