>>http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-data-seek.php
>>
>>There is something like this in sybase too
>
> Here is how it works in sybase
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sybase-data-seek.php

The question again is - What are you trying to do?
These sort of operations can reading a lot of unnecessary
data from the server ( as far as I can see ). With firebird
you just access the data you want - something that was
difficult with the early versions of mysql. That is why PHP
has to provide additional support that mysql did not have.
People have built a lot of somewhat unnecessary functions
into PHP which the engine should be able to provide.

If you want to read more data than you are actually
displaying, then ADOdb is still the best approach.
http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB
It also has a CacheExecute if you want 'static' data.

It currently lists 30 database drivers that it will support
almost transparently. Just change the connection. While the
Firebird interface still uses the interbase functions I have
not had any problems, and samples built for mysql switch to
firebird without much difficulty.

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