odbc_binmode
odbc_binmode
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
odbc_binmode — Handling of binary column data
Description
bool odbc_binmode ( resource $result_id , int $mode )
Enables handling of binary column data. ODBC SQL types affected are BINARY, VARBINARY, and LONGVARBINARY.
When binary SQL data is converted to character C data, each byte (8 bits) of source data is represented as two ASCII characters. These characters are the ASCII character representation of the number in its hexadecimal form. For example, a binary 00000001 is converted to "01" and a binary 11111111 is