Paradox Functions

Object oriented API

The paradox extension provides also an object oriented API. It consists of only one class called paradox_db. Its methods only differ from the functions in its name and of course the missing first parameter. The following table will list all methods and its equivalent functions.

Methods of class paradox_db

Name of method	Equivalent function
Constructor	px_new()
Destructor	px_delete()
open_fp()	px_open_fp()
create_fp()	px_create_fp()
close()	px_close()
numrecords()	px_numrecords()
numfields()	px_numfields()
get_record()	px_get_record()
put_record()	px_put_record()
retrieve_record()	px_retrieve_record()
delete_record()	px_delete_record()
insert_record()	px_insert_record()
update_record()	px_update_record()
get_field()	px_get_field()
get_schema()	px_get_schema()
get_info()	px_get_info()
set_parameter()	px_set_parameter()
get_parameter()	px_get_parameter()
set_value()	px_set_value()
get_value()	px_get_value()
get_info()	px_get_info()
set_targetencoding()	px_set_targetencoding()
set_tablename()	px_set_tablename()
set_blob_file()	px_set_blob_file()
date2string()	px_date2string()
timestamp2string()	px_timestamp2string()