Re: DB/DB_oci8 question
| From: | Manuel Lemos | Date: | Thu, 29 Nov 2001 03:16:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: DB/DB_oci8 question | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.pear.general |
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Hello,
"Tomas V.V.Cox" wrote:
>
> Manuel Lemos wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > It would help a lot in many circumstances that the data type returned
> > > might be converted into a php data type. Please go to php-dev and
> > > propose that :-)
> >
> > Metabase does that too.
> >
>
> Manualy storing somewhere the data type of each table or getting the
> info on the fly from the result? (just curious)
No, the user implicitly tells the expected data type.
You'd better look at Metabase API by yourself to have a better
understanding.
Regards,
Manuel Lemos