<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >yaz_syntax</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="YAZ functions" HREF="ref.yaz.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="yaz_sort" HREF="function.yaz-sort.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="yaz_wait" HREF="function.yaz-wait.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.yaz-sort.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.yaz-wait.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.yaz-syntax" ></A >yaz_syntax</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN98153" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.0.1)</P >yaz_syntax -- Specifies the preferred record syntax for retrieval. </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN98156" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >yaz_syntax</B > ( resource id, string syntax)<BR ></BR ><P > The syntax must be specified as an OID (Object Identifier) in a raw dot-notation (like <TT CLASS="literal" >1.2.840.10003.5.10</TT >) or as one of the known registered record syntaxes (sutrs, usmarc, grs1, xml, etc.). This function should be called before <A HREF="function.yaz-search.html" ><B CLASS="function" >yaz_search()</B ></A > or <A HREF="function.yaz-present.html" ><B CLASS="function" >yaz_present()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.yaz-sort.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.yaz-wait.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >yaz_sort</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.yaz.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >yaz_wait</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >