Re: Inquiry From Form [pgsql]

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.