David Godsey wrote:
>>
>> I know, I know, sounds like something that should be done in the
>> presentation layer, howerver if possible, I would like to provide common
>> data presentation to multiple presentation layers (written in different
>> languages).
>>
>> So is there anyway to return an array in mysql?
>
Your aware your doing something stupid and want to do it anyway :-(
Why not return the values from your user defined mysql function as a
(properly quoted) ,comma seperated list. Since almost every application
language now has a standard csv file handling library it should be easy
to use across diverse display technologies.
Urrgh
Nigel
