Re: [PHP4BETA] odbc_close

Just to clairfy - the odbc_close does not cause a problem with php3, only with php4 (cgi) Date sent: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:00:56 -0800 To: Avrum Goodblatt <goodblat@sprynet.com> From: Leo Baschy <nirvana@got.net> Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] odbc_close Copies to: php4beta@lists.php.net > At 11:10 AM 3/12/00 -1000, you wrote: > >I have commented out odbc_close using php4 because it seems to > >give an access violation. NT 4.0 IBM HTTP Server (apache). > >Everything then runs fine. Is there still supposed to be a > >problem with odbc? I'm using the php4 dev5 > > If that works for you that's good, keep it that way. > > Problems occur if you like me use odbc_close() on purpose. > > I'm taking ODBC very far, including actually having written for PHP3 code that gives me > output parameters of procedures (odbc_procedure) and multiple result sets (not just rows) etc (also > something you have asked for). Works fine in PHP3 and now bringing it into PHP4 and releasing it at > the same time (releasing for PHP4 only, PHP3 is dead for me). > While doing that I notice that some things in php_odbc of PHP4b4+ are less than perfect > (some even don't work), and that's what much of this discussion is about. > Great as the new Zend is, not every implication of Zend on php_odbc seems to have been > thought of, by not any party (including myself, but I'm catching up quickly). The current > public discussion of php_odbc on this list is to make sure Windows and Linux people are heard as > well as people with different uses. > Myself I have some pretty big PHP scripts that access many tables (possibly more than one > database) for one page and do quite a lot of processing for one page, so I really use different > features than others who e.g. serve lots of small data (which I do on a few pages only). > > You ask: Is there supposed to be a problem with php_odbc? I think if a user takes PHP3 script > and it crashes unless she removes odbc_close() that _is_ a problem. > > Use it, it soon will be better than PHP3. > > - Leo Baschy <nirvana@got.net> > -------------------------------------------------- Avrum Goodblatt goodblat@sprynet.com (415) 9451368 http://home.sprynet.com/~goodblat