ASP(VBScript), from time to time, has some neat features. One is a function called GetString, which pertains to the Recordset object. Its purpose is to pull the entire recordset into a formatted string and close the connection to free resources. This type of functionality can be quite useful in a high load environment. So I thought it would duplicate the functionality with PHP. So here it is...
<?php
require("conn.php"); //require connection data
$delimiter_string = "</td>\n\t\t<td>"; //the \n\t\t pattern is
added to be able to format the source clearly
$sql = "select * from tableName";
$result = conn($sql); //custom connection
function - so don't freak out
$data = GetString($result, $delimiter_string); //call the function
echo "<table>$data</table>"; //print out the results
function GetString($handle,$delimiter)
{
/*
This function emulates the ASP GetStrings function. It creates an
array of the dataset where the the array is a string with a certain delimiter
ie if you were to pass a delimiter of "|" your data would be
element1 | element2 | element3
for a pipe-delimited string to pass around
delimiter of "</td><td>" would get you
element1 </td><td> element2 </td><td> element3
to make it really easy to create a table dump of your data
(Note: I added \n\t\t in the pattern to be able to see the output neatly formatted when I view the source code for it)
*/
if (mysql_num_rows($handle)>0){
//initialize the array
$RsString = ''; //array();
//loop thru the recordset
while ($rows = mysql_fetch_array($handle,MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
//add some additional tags to open and close the table rows with some formattting
$RsString .=
"\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<td>".implode($delimiter,$rows)."</td>\n\t</tr>\n";
} //wend
return $RsString;
}else{
//no records in recordset so return false
return false;
} //end if
//close the connection
mysql_close($handle);
