PHP 4.0 Bug #6294 Updated: Strange behaviour when using DB2

ID: 6294 Updated by: kalowsky Reported By: ltning@anduin.net Status: Open Bug Type: ODBC related Assigned To: Comments: Judging by your second comment, would you consider this bug closed? Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-08-22 11:26:07] ltning@anduin.net I have been able to narrow the problem down to the useage of the "FOR BIT DATA" modifier to the CHAR type. To use the GENERATE_UNIQUE() function in DB2, one must have a CHAR(13) FOR BIT DATA field. When working with a table with such a field, PHP seems to choke and do many strange things.. Now that I redesigned the database into just using plain CHAR(13) fields (planning to use uniqid()), everything seems to work a lot better. -Eirik --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-08-22 09:34:14] ltning@anduin.net Hi! Having installed DB2 and compiled PHP with --with-ibm-db2 option, set the environment properly and started apache/php, I have the following situation: Connecting to the database works fine. Inserting data into tables in a database works fine, it seems. I can view the data using the command line interface to DB2 or any other tool. Selecting from a table, however, is rather flakey, at best. In my case, doing a "SELECT * FROM bar" seems to work, but when using odbc_result_all() to print the result set, the first field (an ID field, CHAR(13) BIT DATA) shows as either empty or with strange data. This strange data is, in this case, either "ml>" (part of "<html>"??) or "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:"........ .. Seems to be a environment variable on my system. When running it through PHP4 for OS/2 instead, these "strange data" are either "ml>" or parts of the SQL statement. Doing a "SELECT foo FROM bar" returns nothing at all, even though the exact same statement returns the data I want in any other tool I use to manage the database. This sounds to me like a nasty bug - pointer problems or something? - in your code.. Either that, or it's something stupid I've done. ;) Hope this can be resolved as soon as possible, since we're about to do a company-wide transition from MySQL to DB2 these days. This encounter is a serious set-back .. Best regards, Eirik Overby Freepoint Networks GmbH Haburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Do NOT reply to this email! To reply, use the web interface found at http://bugs.php.net/?id=6294&edit=2