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Re: ODBC Connection [message #172745 is a reply to message #172735] Sun, 27 February 2011 20:46 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Feb 27, 1:54 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2/27/2011 1:24 PM, bruceaj wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Feb 27, 1:07 pm, Luuk<L...@invalid.lan>  wrote:
>>> On 27-02-11 18:57, bruceaj wrote:
>
>>>> I am connecting to an MS Access database. The connection and exec work
>>>> fine. My problem is getting the data.
>
>>>> The following two statement work;
>>>> $row = odbc_fetch_array($rs);
>>>> $value = $row['Newspaper'];
>
>>>> If I change to
>>>> $value = $row[1];
>
>>>> is_null($value) returns true.
>
>>>> What am I doing wrong or is an idiosyncrasy of using MS Access?
>
>>>> Bruce
>
>>> This would probably tell more:
>>> print_r($row);
>
>>> --
>>> Luuk
>
>> Okay.. Thanks for the response.
>
>> Array ( [Newspaper] =>  Review [Year] =>  1887 [Month] =>  5 [Day] =>  20
>> [Page] =>  4 [Column] =>  3 [Father First] =>  Joe [Father Middle] =>
>> [Mother First] =>  [Mother Middle] =>  [Mother Maiden] =>  [First] =>
>> Daughter [Middle] =>  [Last] =>  Allen [Date Of Birth] =>  05/18/1887
>> [Date Of Baptism] =>  [Church] =>  [Counter] =>  1 [NewspaperKey] =>  1
>> [Comments] =>  )
>
>> Hope this helps..
>
>> Thanks again.
>
>> Bruce
>
> Which is exactly what you should get if you fetch as an associative
> array.  If you want to access the values by index, you need to fetch
> with an indexed array (odbc_fetch_row())/
>
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> Jerry Stuckle
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> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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Okay.. obdc_fetch_row() seems to have worked. I was under the opinion
that with an Associative Array the item could be addressed via either
a name or an index. I guess I'm wrong. Apparently an Associative Array
can only be indexed via a string value. Strange...

Thanks...

Bruce
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