sesam_query
    (PHP 3 CVS only)
sesam_query -- Perform a SESAM SQL query and prepare the result
Description
string 
sesam_query ( string query [, bool scrollable])
     Returns: A SESAM "result identifier" on success, or      FALSE on error.     
     A "result_id" resource is used by other functions to retrieve the      query results.     
     sesam_query() sends a query to the currently      active database on the server. It can execute both "immediate"      SQL statements and "select type" queries. If an "immediate"      statement is executed, then no cursor is allocated, and any      subsequent sesam_fetch_row() or      sesam_fetch_result() call will return an empty      result (zero columns, indicating end-of-result).  For "select      type" statements, a result descriptor and a (scrollable or      sequential, depending on the optional boolean      scrollable parameter) cursor will be      allocated. If scrollable is omitted, the      cursor will be sequential.     
     When using "scrollable" cursors, the cursor can be freely      positioned on the result set. For each "scrollable" query, there      are global default values for the scrolling type (initialized to:      SESAM_SEEK_NEXT) and the scrolling offset      which can either be set once by      sesam_seek_row() or each time when fetching a      row using sesam_fetch_row().     
     For "immediate" statements, the number of affected rows is saved      for retrieval by the sesam_affected_rows()      function.     
     See also: sesam_fetch_row() and      sesam_fetch_result().      
Example 1.         Show all rows of the "phone" table as a html table        <?php
if (!sesam_connect ("phonedb", "demo", "otto"))
    die ("cannot connect");
$result = sesam_query ("select * from phone");
if (!$result) {
    $err = sesam_diagnostic();
    die ($err["errmsg"]);
}
echo "<TABLE BORDER>\n";
// Add title header with column names above the result:
if ($cols = sesam_field_array ($result)) {
    echo " <TR><TH COLSPAN=".$cols["count"].">Result:</TH></TR>\n";
    echo " <TR>\n";
    for ($col = 0; $col < $cols["count"]; ++$col) {
        $colattr = $cols[$col];
        /* Span the table head over SESAM's "Multiple Fields": */
        if ($colattr["count"] > 1) {
            echo "  <TH COLSPAN=".$colattr["count"].">".$colattr["name"].
                "(1..".$colattr["count"].")</TH>\n";
            $col += $colattr["count"] - 1;
        } else
            echo "  <TH>" . $colattr["name"] . "</TH>\n";
    }
    echo " </TR>\n";
}
do {
    // Fetch the result in chunks of 100 rows max.
    $ok = sesam_fetch_result ($result, 100);
    for ($row=0; $row < $ok["rows"]; ++$row) {
        echo " <TR>\n";
        for ($col = 0; $col < $ok["cols"]; ++$col) {
            if (isset($ok[$col][$row]))
                echo "  <TD>" . $ok[$col][$row] . "</TD>\n";
            } else {
                echo "  <TD>-empty-</TD>\n";
            }
        }
        echo " </TR>\n";
    }
} 
while ($ok["truncated"]) { // while there may be more data
    echo "</TABLE>\n";
}
// free result id
sesam_free_result($result);
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