Tcl/Tk Interface Application Developers Guide Empress Hypermedia v8.62 January 2003 (Unix only)

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Part #: 001-03-H2-110

This manual describes the Empress Tcl/Tk extension which allows Tcl/Tk applications to access and manipulate information held in the Empress databases.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. The "etsql" Command

3. Using the Interface
   • Connect to Database
   • Executing SQL Commands
   • Retrieving Records
   • Quoting String Values
   • Transaction Handling

4. Commands Reference
   • etsql autocommit
   • etsql autoquote
   • etsql bind_param
   • etsql commit
   • etsql connect
   • etsql delete
   • etsql destroy
   • etsql disconnect
   • etsql execute
   • etsql fetch
   • etsql finish
   • etsql prepare
   • etsql quote
   • etsql rollback
   • etsql titles
   • etsql types
   • etsql update
   • etsql version

5. Appendices
   • Adding the Interface to Tcl