From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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To: | <brew(at)theMode(dot)com> |
Cc: | <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Inquiry From Form [pgsql] |
Date: | 2002-11-18 17:12:40 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0211181011340.17026-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 brew(at)theMode(dot)com wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, William wrote:
>
> > I code with PHP and use it to communicate with MySQL, if I started using
> > PostgreSQL would I have to change my coding to communicate with the
> > database?
>
> Probably, but only slightly.
>
> I changed my DB from MySQL to PostgreSQL and had to change each SQL call
> slightly. It seems to me the difference was PostgreSQL needs to know the
> number of rows gotten and then loop through them with a for loop, with
> MySQL I was able to use a while loop without checking the number of rows
> first.
>
> It could have been my inexperience that caused me to miss the obvious,
> though.
The ability to use the
while ($row = pg_fetch_array(res)){
}
construct wasn't included in PHP until somewhere around 4.1 or 4.2 I
think.
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