function RetrieveLOB($lob)
 {
     if (!isset($this->lobs[$lob])) {
         return $this->SetError("Retrieve LOB", "it was not specified a valid lob");
     }
     if (!isset($this->lobs[$lob]["Value"])) {
         $this->lobs[$lob]["Value"] = $this->FetchResult($this->lobs[$lob]["Result"], $this->lobs[$lob]["Row"], $this->lobs[$lob]["Field"]);
         if (!($this->lobs[$lob]["Data"] = ifx_get_blob($this->lobs[$lob]["Value"]))) {
             unset($this->lobs[$lob]["Value"]);
             return $this->SetIFXError("Retrieve LOB", "Could not get a blob contents");
         }
         $this->lobs[$lob]["Position"] = 0;
     }
     return 1;
 }

 function BlobDecode($blobid)
 {
     return function_exists('ifx_byteasvarchar') ? $blobid : @ifx_get_blob($blobid);
 }

 function BlobDecode($blobid)
 {
     return @ifx_get_blob($blobid);
 }