Question

I just started to work on informix.( I have been using mysql all my life)
how i substitute mysql_fetch_assoc for informix.
Lets say I want to display one item at a time.normally in mysql i would run a while loop like this:

while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($sql))
{
    echo $row['name'];
    echo $row['number'];
}

How do i do that for informix?

$sql="select * employee";
 $result=$dbh->dbRequest("$sql")

Answer 1

I would suggest using PDO with the informix driver. The manual has plenty of examples of executing and returning data from queries using PDO.

PDO Informix driver – http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-informix.php
PDO prepare – http://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepare.php

$db = new PDO('informix:DSN=db', '', '');
$query = $db->prepare('SELECT * FROM employee');
$query->execute();

while ($employee = $query->fetchObject()) {
    echo $employee->name;
    echo $employee->number;
}