Re: [PHP4BETA] binary data
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 06:02:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] binary data | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.version4 |
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On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:24:36PM -0500, Chad Cunningham wrote:
>
> Can anyone point out an example of how to work with binary data in an
> extension? It appears that all the other db's either don't have BLOB
> support or work like MySQL where it's just inserted normally. What I
> need to do is write the binary data to the server and return a handle to
> reference it in queries using:
>
> FBCBlobHandle* fbcdcWriteBLOB(FBCDatabaseConnection* self, void*
> blobData, unsigned blobDataLength);
>
> What I'm not understanding is how arbitrary binary data would get passed
> to my function and how I would get retrieve it for use in the above
> function. This could be simple, but my mind is kinda fuzzy right now :)
What's wrong with using Zend's datatype string?
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Regards,
Sascha Schumann
Consultant