dbs             Wed Aug 24 07:07:47 2005 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions  PDO-beginTransaction.xml 
                                        PDO-rollBack.xml 
  Log:
  Address bug 34231 (MySQL doesn't handle DDL in transactions).
  
  
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-beginTransaction.xml?r1=1.3&r2=1.4&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-beginTransaction.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-beginTransaction.xml:1.3 
phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-beginTransaction.xml:1.4
--- phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-beginTransaction.xml:1.3      Mon Jul 
11 00:38:55 2005
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-beginTransaction.xml  Wed Aug 24 
07:07:44 2005
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
 <!-- Generated by xml_proto.php v2.1. Found in /scripts directory of phpdoc. 
-->
   <refentry id="function.PDO-beginTransaction">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -19,15 +19,31 @@
     <para>
      Turns off autocommit mode.  While autocommit mode is turned off, changes
      made to the database via the PDO object instance are not committed until
-     you end the transaction by calling either
-     <function>PDO::commit</function> or <function>PDO::rollback</function>.
+     you end the transaction by calling <function>PDO::commit</function>.
+     Calling <function>PDO::rollback</function> will roll back all changes to
+     the database and return the connection to autocommit mode.
     </para>
+    <para>
+     Some databases, including MySQL, automatically issue an implicit
+     COMMIT when a database definition language (DDL) statement such as
+     DROP TABLE or CREATE TABLE is issued within a transaction. The implicit
+     COMMIT will prevent you from rolling back any other changes within the
+     transaction boundary.
+    </para>
+
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1 role="examples">
     &reftitle.examples;
     <para>
      <example><title>Roll back a transaction</title>
+      <para>
+       The following example begins a transaction and issues two statements
+       that modify the database before rolling back the changes. On MySQL,
+       however, the DROP TABLE statement automatically commits the
+       transaction so that none of the changes in the transaction are rolled
+       back.
+      </para>
       <programlisting role='php'>
 <![CDATA[
 <?php
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-rollBack.xml?r1=1.5&r2=1.6&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-rollBack.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-rollBack.xml:1.5 
phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-rollBack.xml:1.6
--- phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-rollBack.xml:1.5      Mon Jul 11 
00:38:55 2005
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/pdo/functions/PDO-rollBack.xml  Wed Aug 24 07:07:45 2005
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
 <!-- Generated by xml_proto.php v2.1. Found in /scripts directory of phpdoc. 
-->
   <refentry id="function.PDO-rollBack">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -26,12 +26,26 @@
      If the database was set to autocommit mode, this function will restore
      autocommit mode after it has rolled back the transaction.
     </para>
+    <para>
+     Some databases, including MySQL, automatically issue an implicit
+     COMMIT when a database definition language (DDL) statement such as
+     DROP TABLE or CREATE TABLE is issued within a transaction. The implicit
+     COMMIT will prevent you from rolling back any other changes within the
+     transaction boundary.
+    </para>
    </refsect1>
 
    <refsect1 role="examples">
     &reftitle.examples;
     <para>
      <example><title>Roll back a transaction</title>
+      <para>
+       The following example begins a transaction and issues two statements
+       that modify the database before rolling back the changes. On MySQL,
+       however, the DROP TABLE statement automatically commits the
+       transaction so that none of the changes in the transaction are rolled
+       back.
+      </para>
       <programlisting role='php'>
 <![CDATA[
 <?php

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