Question

Go easy on me since I’m new to PHP 😉

My development stack is Windows 7 with XAMP, My live server is a turnkey LAMP stack.

I’m using ADODB to connect to MSSQL and append all the results into a string with the code below:

    $sql = "SELECT Field1 FROM tb_Table";

        $rs = $db->Execute($sql); 

         if (!$rs) {
            print $db->ErrorMsg(); 
        } else {

            $arr = $rs->GetRows();
            $rows = '';
            //Loop through parent array (rows)
                for ($i=0;$i<=(count($arr)-1);$i++) {
                    $rows .= " ".$arr[$i][0]." ";
                }
print strlen($rows)

The string length on my local machine is 195,057 on the Server it is 136,858

I have checked that the same number of rows has been returned from the database, but I don’t understand why the length of the string should differ between environments.

Any pointers would be very much appreciated

Answer 1

Ok, sussed it. The issue wasn’t the code it was the provider, the provider on the Linux box only returns a maximum length of 255 from the field.

The windows provider returns the full length of the field.

Thanks everyone for looking 🙂