From: Giff Hammar on
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll need to look into it.

Giff

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:23 +0100, Samuel ROZE wrote:
> Why not using PDO ? It is a global and standardized method to access
> to data. :-)
>
> 2009/10/27 Giff Hammar <ghammar(a)sv-phoenix.com>:
> > I started having trouble with a DBI interface to my PostgreSQL database
> > after I built a new Ubuntu machine. The Postgres version is 8.3 and the
> > DBI was written several years ago (by someone else). I'm using PHP
> > version 5.2.6-3ubuntu4.2 with apache2. The problem is that I get the
> > error:
> >
> > Warning: pg_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL
> > result resource in /var/www/lib/dbi_pgsql.php on line 202
> >
> > I don't know what to check next to figure out why this is happening.
> > Here is what I have done so far:
> >
> > - Updated the old PHP commands in the dbi file to reflect new ones
> > var -> public
> > pg_numrows -> pg_num_rows
> > pg_cmdtuples -> pg_affected_rows
> > pg_exec -> pg_execute
> > - Connected to the database as the same user by using straight PHP calls
> > vs the DBI. It worked fine.
> > - Connected to the database via psql and that worked fine, too.
> >
> > There is something with the DBI class that is not right, but I am a
> > novice with objects and classes, so I can't pin it down. The whole file
> > is here: http://www.sv-phoenix.com/dbi_pgsql.php - it's 205 lines so I
> > didn't want to put the whole thing in this post.
> >
> > If anyone can take a look at it and let me know what to check next, I
> > would really appreciate it.
> >
> > Giff
> >
> >
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