masotti wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Jiri Cincura ha scritto:
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 15:57, kamilwalas <kamilwalas85@...> wrote:
>>
>>> $row = ibase_fetch_assoc($qry);
>>>
>> IBASE_TEXT
>>
>
> Because Kamil says he is new to PHP, i'd try to explain better:
>
> $row = ibase_fetch_assoc($qry, IBASE_TEXT);
>
> This converts all BLOBs SUB TYPE TEXT in VARCHARs, so you don't need to
> fetch blobs writing more PHP code.
> This anyways fetches BLOBs, also when you aren't interested to (say
> particular conditions on other fields).

Using ADOdb - I tend to forget about the inards ;)
In this case the blob_id was probably correct - just you need to USE it
to access the data in the blob. Which is what IBASE_TEXT is bypassing.

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