On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:55 AM, David Stoltz <Dstoltz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > > Upon occasion, I have the need to hit our MS MSL database from our > PHP/mySQL server. So I've created a function, but I'm not sure if you > can return a recordset from a function. My code is below... > > > > In the calling page I code: > > <?php > > include('../includes/mssql.php'); > > hitMSSQL("server","database","username","password","SELECT * FROM > TABLE1"); > > echo $rs->Fields(1); > > ?> > > > > The mssql.php include file is: > > <?php > > function hitMSSQL($server,$db,$login,$pass,$query){ > > > > $conn = new COM ("ADODB.Connection") > > or die("Cannot start ADO"); > > $connStr = > "PROVIDER=SQLOLEDB;SERVER=".$server.",1433;UID=".$login.";PWD=".$pass."; > DATABASE=".$db; > > $conn->open($connStr); > > $rs = $conn->execute($query); > > return $rs; > > > > } > > ?> > > > > If I have the echo statement in the function, it works. > > > > And of course I can return a single value like: > > Return $rs-Fields("value"); > > > > But I can't return the whole recordset... > > > > Does anyone have any good ideas so I can access the recordset in the > calling page? > > > > Thanks! > > Is there a reason you need to work with COM/ADODB to get the information from SQL Server as opposed to one of the PHP libraries? If your are using COM you must be running under Windows which means you should be able to use Microsoft's SQL Server Driver for PHP, which is the best tool I've seen to date for the task. There are also the older mssql and the newer PDO_MSSQL libraries, or even odbc or PDO_ODBC that will work OK in many cases as well. Any of these are much simpler to work with than COM variants in PHP. Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php