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Name

ifx_update_blob — Updates the content of the blob object

Synopsis

int ifx_update_blob(object, content); int object: BLOB object identifier string content: New content

Returns

TRUE on success or FALSE on error

Description

Updates the content of the blob object for the given blob object object . content is a string with new data

Version

Since version 3.0.4 and 4.0

Example

Example 581. Update BLOB fields

$db = ifx_connect("stores7@ol","informix","informix");

$text = "This is a very large amoutn of text data. Well, it could be :)";

// create param id for first blob column
$tid = ifx_create_blob(0, 0, $text);
// create param id for second blob column
$bid = ifx_create_blob(0, 1, "/tmp/data.bin");

$newtext = "Another potentially large chunk of data";

ifx_update_blob($tid,$newtext);
ifx_update_blob($bid,"/tmp/newdata.bin");

// store both param ids in the param param array
$paramarray[0] = $tid;
$paramarray[1] = $bid;

// update, note the absence of a where clause(pretty useless) 
$query = "update testparams set t = ?, b = ?";                             
$result = ifx_query($query, $db, $paramarray);
ifx_free_result($result);

ifx_close($db);

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