Hi

I am a PHP newbie.

I was using PDO for other Dbs but have switched to using the
firebird/interbase drivers as the PDO firebird stuff was full of bugs.

Anyway I have got my php connecting, disconnecting and using
transactions ok. However I am struggling with running queries that take
parameters. In the PDO drivers I used a bindparam function to assign a
value to a named parameter. However I cant see an equivelent function
for the native drivers. I see that ibase_execute and ibase_Query take a
'bind_arg' list of parameters that fill in '?' indicated parameters.

First Question
I would like to do queries like "Update TableName SET Field1 =
:Field1Param WHERE Field2 = :Field2param" and assing parameters by
name. IS this at all possible ?

If I do have to use "Update TableName SET Field1 = ? WHERE Field2 = ?" I
have found the following function (which I don't fully understand) that
takes an array of params and runs an execute. I am using it and it
appears to work well.


function db_execute($stmt, $data)
{
if(!is_array($data))
return ibase_execute($stmt,$data);

$params = array();
while( list($k,$v) = each($data) )
$params[$k] = '$data['.$k.']';
eval('$rc=ibase_execute($stmt,'.join(',',$params).');');

return $rc;
}


If I am using the above and I want to pass in Blob (binary) data as 1 or
more of the params I suspect the above will fail, correct?

If so what should I do?

Sorry about the long email :)

Thanks

Rob