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XLV. Unified ODBC functions

In addition to normal ODBC support, the Unified ODBC functions in PHP allow you to access several databases that have borrowed the semantics of the ODBC API to implement their own API. Instead of maintaining multiple database drivers that were all nearly identical, these drivers have been unified into a single set of ODBC functions.

The following databases are supported by the Unified ODBC functions: Adabas D, IBM DB2, iODBC, Solid, and Sybase SQL Anywhere.

Note: There is no ODBC involved when connecting to the above databases. The functions that you use to speak natively to them just happen to share the same names and syntax as the ODBC functions.

Table of Contents
odbc_autocommit — Toggle autocommit behaviour
odbc_binmode — Handling of binary column data
odbc_close — Close an ODBC connection
odbc_close_all — Close all ODBC connections
odbc_commit — Commit an ODBC transaction
odbc_connect — Connect to a datasource
odbc_cursor — Get cursorname
odbc_do — Synonym for odbc_exec()
odbc_error — Get the last error code
odbc_errormsg — Get the last error message
odbc_exec — Prepare and execute a SQL statement
odbc_execute — Execute a prepared statement
odbc_fetch_into — Fetch one result row into array
odbc_fetch_row — Fetch a row
odbc_field_name — Get the columnname
odbc_field_num — Return column number
odbc_field_type — Dat