Re: [PHP-DEV] My final say on Empress RBDMS and PHP From: Andreas Karajannis (Andreas.Karajannis <email protected>)
Date: 12/12/98

Steve Williams wrote:

> I THINK that the data should NEVER be displayed in a HTML table,
> therefore the code should be:
>
> case SQL_LONGVARBINARY:
> php3_printf("<td>Not printable</td>");
> break;
>

You are right, but the whole binary handling has to take into account,
that
there are many users that use Access with uodbc. Unfortunately, the
popular
Access "Memo" fields are of type LONGVARBINARY - but mostly contain just
text. In earlier versions of uodbc, binary columns never got displayed
in tables and got passed through to the client by odbc_result(). To
resolve this, odbc_binmode and odbc_longreadlen were introduced to allow
Access users to display their data. This handling may be a little bit
confusing, but allows for maximum flexibility.

-Andreas 

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