Subject RE: [firebird-php] PHP5.2.x problems with php_interbase
Author Alan McDonald
> Try again - windows crash while typing last message!
>
> I have been slowly checking everything for a move to Apache 2.2.4
> and PHP5.2.3
> along with a number of extensions that I have not been able to
> get working
> with PHP5.1.x. Taken most of the day, but I'm almost there -
> except there is a
> major bug in php_interbase :(
>
> ibase_fetch_row() is not returning a blob_id, just a duff string
> - '0x %i' -
> and so any access to blobs is blocked. I had seen a report of a
> bug in ADOdb
> relating to blobs, but it was lacking in information, which I do now have.

I have already rasied this issue with you lester. You do not need the blob_id anymore. Just use the field contents for both select and insert/update

>
> I've managed to get ADOdb working again so long as only text
> blobs are used,
> and the IBASE_TEXT flag works with ibase_fetch_row() function,
> returning the
> blob as a text string rather than having to get the blob data later.
>
> I SUSPECT this was broken in the 5.2.0 build as I had a number of
> problems at
> that time which I could not be bothered to work through. I
> suspect that this
> was one of the main ones at that time.
>
> Has anybody else found the problem or have any other input to
> when this started?

it started with php5 something
Alan
>
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