If you look at the PHP 5 manual, you will see a group of functions listed under the ODBC Functions (Unified) setion. The commonly used ODBC functions are:

* odbc_connect ? Establish an OBDC connection.

* odbc_data_source ? Returns information about a current connection.

* odbc_close ? Close an ODBC connection.

* odbc_exec ? Prepare and execute a SQL statement.

* odbc_fetch_row ? Fetch a row - moving the pointer to the a new row in a result object.

* odbc_result ? Get the value of a specific field from the current row of a result object.

* odbc_fetch_array ? Fetch a result row as an associative array.

* odbc_fetch_object ? Fetch a result row as an object.

* odbc_num_rows ? Number of rows in a result.

* odbc_field_name ? Get the name of a specified field index.

* odbc_field_type ? Get the data type of a specified field index.

* odbc_next_result ? Checks if multiple results are available.

* odbc_free_result ? Free resources associated with a result object.

* odbc_prepare ? Prepares a statement for execution.