From: stronk7 <stronk7>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:31:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New function sql_substr() returns the proper substr() function for each DB
X-Git-Url: http://git.mjollnir.org/gw?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06edab84e16de901a103e0852b462551dec9f74b;p=moodle.git

New function sql_substr() returns the proper substr() function for each DB

Merged from MOODLE_17_STABLE
---

diff --git a/lib/dmllib.php b/lib/dmllib.php
index a7bcd45365..484b576ac2 100644
--- a/lib/dmllib.php
+++ b/lib/dmllib.php
@@ -1570,6 +1570,17 @@ function sql_as() {
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Returns the proper substr() function for each DB
+ * Relies on ADOdb $db->substr property
+ */
+function sql_substr() {
+
+    global $db;
+
+    return $db->substr;
+}
+
 /**
  * Returns the SQL text to be used to order by one TEXT (clob) column, because
  * some RDBMS doesn't support direct ordering of such fields.