RE: [PHP4BETA] PHP and Cursors?

Hi Rich, This looks like a nice piece of work to add in some functionality to PHP, and I applaud you. From what I understand, this is basically a detached/cached rowset concept, which is similar to replicated / synchronized Rowsets, and would depend on a refresh interval. How bout a comment from the PHP Guru's / Developers - Is there any plan to build an appreciation of the 5 cursor types into PHP and tie cursors dynamically back into the database layer, facilitating true Cursors? Best regards, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------- Andrew Hill Technical Support Consultant OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com Universal Database Connectivity Technology Providers -----Original Message----- From: Rich Bryant [mailto:rbb@iseek.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 4:36 AM To: Andrew Hill Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP and Cursors? Hi Andrew, My own implementation consisted of a set of supporting C language extensions to PHP that does all the 'heavy lifting', accompanied by a PHP class that provides encapsulation and data hiding. The need was based on the fact that we wanted to allow users to page through query results, but it also ended up having other benefits, such as query result sharing between users. You can see the documentation at: http://iseek.com/phpcursor.htm It's been a real success story. Regards, -Rich On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 09:47:47AM -0400, Andrew Hill wrote: > Rich, > > I'm not familiar with extending php, nor a c progammer. > > Is your extension module that can simply be used adjacent to php or compiled > in with it? > What sort of cursor support does this add? > > Keyset-driven, dynamic, etc... > > The only major gap I've seen in PHP is a lack of scrollable cursors, but I > agree it's needed. > Without it database applications are rather limited. > > Best regards, > Andrew > ---------------------------------------------------- > Andrew Hill > Technical Support Consultant > OpenLink Software > http://www.openlinksw.com > Universal Database Connectivity Technology Providers >