On 25/02/2012 12:43, Lester Caine wrote:
> OK ... not sure where to start here, but it's all tied up with the same
> problem
> I think.
>
> hex2bin produces a binary character string, but I'm not sure that it can be
> stored into a character field in php driver as that seems to baulk at a
> '00'
> character, while PHP doesn't? What I would like to be able to do is
> simply store
> the 8 byte string as a BIGINT but I'm not sure how to handle that.

Not sure I've understand all, but do you mean a field with CHARACTER SET
OCTET would solve?

Ciao.
Mimmo.