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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Holding cursor position on one line Post 303026553 by RudiC on Thursday 29th of November 2018 11:30:15 AM
Old 11-29-2018
On VT102-compatible terminals / emulators, you might also want to consider cursor controls - see man console_codes.
 

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INGRES_RESULT_SEEK(3)							 1						     INGRES_RESULT_SEEK(3)

ingres_result_seek - Set the row position before fetching data

SYNOPSIS
bool ingres_result_seek (resource $result, int $position) DESCRIPTION
This function is used to position the cursor associated with the result resource before issuing a fetch. If ingres.array_index_start is set to 0 then the first row is 0 else it is 1. ingres_result_seek(3) can be used only with queries that make use of scrollable cursors. It cannot be used with ingres_unbuffered_query(3). Note Related Configurations See also the ingres.scrollable and ingres.array_index_start directives in Runtime Configuration. PARAMETERS
o $result - The result identifier for a query o $position - The row to position the cursor on. If ingres.array_index_start is set to 0, then the first row is 0, else it is 1 RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Position the cursor on the 3rd row <?php $result=ingres_query($link, "select * from airport where ap_ccode = 'ES' order by ap_place asc"); /* goto row 3 */ if (!ingres_result_seek($result, 3)) { echo ingres_errno() . " - " . ingres_error . " "; die("i died"); } else { $airport = ingres_fetch_object ($result); { echo $airport->ap_iatacode . " - " . $airport->ap_name . " "; } } ingres_commit($link); ?> SEE ALSO
ingres_query(3), ingres_fetch_array(3), ingres_fetch_assoc(3), ingres_fetch_object(3), ingres_fetch_row(3). PHP Documentation Group INGRES_RESULT_SEEK(3)
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