AFAIk there was a discussion a few weeks ago to clean up this
mess.

- Markus

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:39:59PM -0400, Chris Jackson wrote : 
>  Had me for a minute there...
>  I'm using sybase_ct module with FreeTDS for my mssql functions so Franks
>  patches don't seem to apply - I'll keep this patch to myself, but I can
>  see problems brewing here with keeping the DB/mssql.php module usable
>  for those of us using FreeTDS/sybase_ct. I believe the latest CVS for
>  DB/mssql.php is also broken for us when it comes to using the new
>  tableInfo() stuff added by Tom Cox because
>  mssql_fetch_[name,type,length] aren't implimented in the sybase_ct
>  module either. 
>  I've been wishing on a star that the tds/sybase/sybase_ct/mssql/mssql
>  aliases confusion will clear itself up, but I fear it's only going to
>  get worse. I hope someone will step up to the plate and create a TDS php
>  module so we can do away with the mssql aliases in sybase_ct (I'll even
>  create a PEAR/DB module for it if that happen).
>    
>  
>  On Thu, 2001-09-27 at 14:48, Markus Fischer wrote:
>  > Whatch out: This is not true for the latest version (==RC &&
>  > CVS). Frank (Author of mssql) changed the behaviour about 3
>  > months ago. So recent PHP versions will only return keys and thus
>  > your patch would break the result.
>  > 
>  > - Markus
>  > 
>  > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:54:42AM -0400, Chris Jackson wrote : 
>  > > I've had to make a hack to my local DB/mssql.php in order to make the
>  > > results of fetchInto() match those of mysql and others. Currently, mssql
>  > > fetchInto() returns an array that includes number and field name keys.
>  > > mssql.php, fbsql.php, and pgsql.php use their respective *_fetch_row()'s
>  > > *_ASSOC switch to leave out the numbered keys.
>  > >  
>  > > If this seems like the right thing to do, could someone with CVS access
>  > > update DB/mssql.php ?
>  > > 
>  > > Index: php4/pear/DB/mssql.php
>  > > ===================================================================
>  > > RCS file: /repository/php4/pear/DB/mssql.php,v
>  > > retrieving revision 1.27
>  > > diff -r1.27 mssql.php
>  > > 130a131,139
>  > > >             if($ar){
>  > > >                 foreach($ar as $key=>$val) {
>  > > >                     if($x%2){
>  > > >                         $tmp[$key] = $val;
>  > > >                     }
>  > > >                     $x++;
>  > > >                 }
>  > > >             $ar = $tmp;
>  > > >             }
>  > > 
>  > > 
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
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