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XCVIII. Sybase functions

Tartalom
sybase_affected_rows -- get number of affected rows in last query
sybase_close -- close Sybase connection
sybase_connect -- open Sybase server connection
sybase_data_seek -- move internal row pointer
sybase_fetch_array -- fetch row as array
sybase_fetch_field -- get field information
sybase_fetch_object -- fetch row as object
sybase_fetch_row -- get row as enumerated array
sybase_field_seek -- set field offset
sybase_free_result -- free result memory
sybase_get_last_message -- Returns the last message from the server
sybase_min_client_severity -- Sets minimum client severity
sybase_min_error_severity -- Sets minimum error severity
sybase_min_message_severity -- Sets minimum message severity
sybase_min_server_severity -- Sets minimum server severity
sybase_num_fields -- get number of fields in result
sybase_num_rows -- get number of rows in result
sybase_pconnect -- open persistent Sybase connection
sybase_query -- send Sybase query
sybase_result -- get result data
sybase_select_db -- select Sybase database
User Contributed Notes
Sybase functions
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[email protected]
20-Feb-2000 05:18

To store an image file into Sybase try this :

$data = bin2hex(fread(fopen($image,"r"), filesize($image)));
//don't forget the 0x before the hex data.
if(! sybase_query("INSERT INTO test_image (image) VALUES (0x".$data.")")) die ("Unable to store the image.");

To retrieve it just do a select and use a hex2bin function (this one has been submitted by [email protected] and is the fastest) :

function hex2bin($data) {
$len = strlen($data);
return pack("H" . $len, $data);
}

PS : use CT-lib rather than DB-lib (Sybase doesn't work on it anymore!)

[email protected]
01-Mar-2000 08:34

Poor documentation on sybase support!! Here's how I made it work... First get the linux ASE from sybase (maybe the ctlibs provided at php.net will do fine, too) Install the ASE rpm. (some distributions don't have system libs etc in the rpm database so you might get some dependency errors. If your systems fits the requirements install with "ignore dependencies") Recompile php with option --with-sybase-ct=/dirtoyoursybasehome. Then you need to set the env variable for (at least)your apache user by export SYBASE=/dirtoyoursybasehome. Now you need to set up your servers (like DSNs for ODBC). Edit the file $SYBASE/interfaces and add your server entries:

SERVERNAME
query tcp ether 172.16.1.4 4100
master tcp ether 172.16.1.4 4100

(change IP/FQHN and port to your setup) Now you can check your config by using
$SYBASE/bin/isql -S SERVERNAME -U DBUSER -P PASSWD
If you get a prompt you have connected to your sybase! Hurray! Now you can try with php
$db=sybase_connect("SERVERNAME","DBUSER","DBPASSWD");
And... Voila!

[email protected]
06-Mar-2000 08:57

I struggled to get this to work for a week. Here's a tip. Log on to your system using the same login as your web server, probably "nobody". Using this account, make sure you can get isql to work. In my case, I had to change the permissions on the /opt/sybase folder, as well as chmod the /opt/sybase/interfaces file to 644. (It was 600 by default, and did not allow anyone but root to read it.) Once I did this, things started to happen...
[email protected]
22-Mar-2000 01:28

If you get a segfault with sybase-ct, add a en_US entry to your $SYBASE/locales/locales.dat file:
<PRE>
[linux]
locale = en_US, us_english, iso_1
...
</PRE>

[email protected]
09-Jul-2000 02:03

Amigos, pay attention: sybase_get_last_message() is gone! Read logs or set track_errors=On and use $php_errormsg instead.
[email protected]
18-Aug-2000 09:41

I would STRONGLY recommend using the ct library over the db library when compiling sybase support with php4+. I ran into strange http child seg faults when trying to issue multiple sql statements in one php page. Using ct-library there is no problem.
[email protected]
06-Sep-2000 08:13

about sybase-ct library

You can download the file from php.net but the samples in the tar (and php) maybe not compile I have this problem in some systems (but not in others with old librarys and old gcc).

Try freetds from www.freetds.org that is ok!

System wthout trouble
Debian 2.1 gcc (2.7.2.3) libc-2.0.7.so
System With trouble
Debian 2.2 gcc (2.95.2) libc-2.1.3.so
RedHat 6.2 gcc [egcs] (2.91.66) libc-2.1.3.so

Please refer to mssql if you try to connect to MS SQL Server!!!

[email protected]
28-Sep-2000 04:12

The best place to get Sybase's RPMs:


[email protected]
09-Oct-2000 06:20

A bit more about blobs:


If you want to retrieve blobs without them getting truncated, do a 'set textsize value' query first.

[email protected]
13-Oct-2000 08:17

This should make the image/blob subject rather complete:
PHP 3 seems to have a bug with image columns in sybase. Apache gets a segmentation fault when trying to retrieve an image column with more than a certain amount of characters (even when using set textsize).
The work around is to use text columns instead. They have the same capacity, only you need to convert the data to ASCII (e.g. Hex, see examples in earlier contributions, bin2hex). Remember to put the data in quotes, too, when INSERTing.

[email protected]
04-Dec-2000 08:03

After weeks of work, I have succeeded in getting PHP4 to talk with ASA 7.0 on Redhat Linux 7.0.

Here's my very incomplete not so beautiful FAQ.



Let me know if this helps you.

tysonlt2webmedia.com.au
25-May-2001 04:27

**** NEWS FLASH ****

ATTENTION ALL STRUGGLING TO SETUP SYBASE!

There is finally a complete howto on Sybase/Apache/PHP/Linux here:



Hope it helps.

tysonlt2webmedia.com.au
08-Jun-2001 08:40

******* ANOTHER NEWS FLASH :) *******
Hi, the Apache-PHP-Sybase mini howto is now available at
Enjoy.

[email protected]
28-Jun-2001 01:33

It's important to note that sybase_ct connect or pconnect were causing GPF.
If you experienced this problem, just update PHP to 4.0.6.

[email protected]
04-Jul-2001 08:16

The best place to get Sybase for Debian :


[email protected]
28-Aug-2001 03:54

maybe it can help.
my database is ASE

this is my script....

<?
$cnn = sybase_connect("db_server","sa","password");
$result = sybase_query("Select itemno,stockno from your_db..your_table");
$i = 0;
while ($r = sybase_fetch_array($result)) {
$i++;
$itemno = $r["itemno"];
$stockno = $r["stockno"];
echo "$i $stockno $itemno
";
}
?>

note that I did not use the
sybase_select_db("db") function because ASE had a default database.
thx...

[email protected]
14-Sep-2001 06:22

If you use IIS and sybase-ct library, be sure to use PHP 4.0.6 or higher, since older version caused crashes.
[email protected]
14-Sep-2001 06:29

If you have a Linux machine with Sybase ASE 11.9.2, Php 4.0.6, Apache and Sybase-ct library, don't upgrade to Sybase ASE 12.5 yet, or Apache will stop working.
Since 12.5 is newer than 4.0.6, I guess this will be fixed soon.

[email protected]
25-Oct-2001 10:56

For those, who might want to use SyBase client not only under Linux, you may try to use open-source FreeTDS library -

Also there's how-to for FreeTDS and PHP:

[email protected]
27-Feb-2002 07:44

PhpSybaseAdmin

[email protected]
15-Apr-2002 09:28

Freetds 5.2 bugs!!

For those who use Freetds 5.2 running under linux connect to sqlserver2000, there is a bugs in selecting NVARCHAR field that data will either duplicated or truncated. To avoid this problem, please use CAST or CONVERT function in sql statement such as:
$query="select CAST(fieldname as nchar(1000)) as fieldname from table"

Feel free to contact us at
[email protected]
or
[email protected]

German Chu & Eagle Lee

ddc at portalframework.com
14-May-2002 06:19

Compiling PHP with Sybase ASE 12.5 on Linux.

Assuming that you have installed the Sybase ASE 12.5 client in linux, and you have the SYBASE env variable set, you can compile PHP >= 4.0.6 with Sybase ASE 12.5.
Just use:

--with-sybase-ct=$SYBASE/OCS
instead of
--with-sybase-ct=$SYBASE

[email protected]
17-Jun-2002 10:25

The way to use Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere+PHP+Apache on Unix
[email protected]
13-Aug-2002 09:44

If you compile php with freetds (www.freetds.org) support (--with-sybase in php), apache might NOT START due to unresolved symbol.

This can be easily solved by adding -ltds flag in config_vars.mk file after configuring PHP under the line EXTRA_LIBS.

You can view this debug fix on www.freetds.org under FAQ section.

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