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What Are Commonly Used ODBC Functions in PHP?

If you look at the PHP 5 manual, you will see a group of functions listed under the ODBC Functions (Unified) setion. The commonly used ODBC functions are:

• odbc_connect — Establish an OBDC connection.
• odbc_data_source — Returns information about a current connection.
• odbc_close — Close an ODBC connection.
• odbc_exec — Prepare and execute a SQL statement.
• odbc_fetch_row — Fetch a row - moving the pointer to the a new row in a result object.
• odbc_result — Get the value of a specific field from the current row of a result object.
• odbc_fetch_array — Fetch a result row as an associative array.
• odbc_fetch_object — Fetch a result row as an object.
• odbc_num_rows — Number of rows in a result.
• odbc_field_name — Get the name of a specified field index.
• odbc_field_type — Get the data type of a specified field index.
• odbc_next_result — Checks if multiple results are available.
• odbc_free_result — Free resources associated with a result object.
• odbc_prepare — Prepares a statement for execution.
• odbc_execute — Execute a prepared statement.
• odbc_error — Get the last error code.
• odbc_errormsg — Get the last error message.
• odbc_tables — Get the list of table names stored in a specific data source.
• odbc_columns — Lists the column names in specified tables.
• odbc_autocommit — Toggle autocommit behaviour.
• odbc_commit — Commit an ODBC transaction.
• odbc_rollback — Rollback a transaction.

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4. How To Connect to a SQL Server using odbc_connect()?
5. How To List All DSN Entries on Your Local Machine using odbc_data_source()?
6. How To Execute a SQL Statement using odbc_exec()?
7. How To Retrieve Error Messages using odbc_errormsg()?
8. How To Turn Off Warning Messages during PHP Execution?
9. How To Receive Returning Result from a Query?
10. How To Loop through Result Set Objects using odbc_fetch_row()?
11. How To Retrieve Field Values using odbc_result()?
12. How To List All Tables in the Database using odbc_tables()?
13. How To List All Columns in a Table using odbc_columns()?
14. How To Create Prepared Statements using odbc_prepare()?