Bug #14922 Updated: OCIBindByName forcing length to 1, even though 0 is a valid length

ID: 14922 User updated by: alester@flr.follett.com Reported By: alester@flr.follett.com Old Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: OCI8 related Operating System: Solaris PHP Version: 4.1.0 New Comment: Thies sent this to me: to pass a null thru a bound variable simply assign the special value NULL to the bound php-variable. the size supplied to ocibindbyname is simple the max-length of the inbound variable. ocibindbyname($stmt,"NAME",$name,32); $name = NULL; ociexecute($stmt); -> ":NAME" will have the value null in the query please verify and close the report. It seems incorrect to me to tweak a value that the underlying API expects to be able to handle. Also, this handling of NULL should be documented in the OCIBindByName doc. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-01-07 18:37:16] alester@flr.follett.com It seems that the when oci8.c forces value_sz to 1 if it's 0 is bypassing a perfectly valid use of a length of 0: To signify a null. See: http://download-west.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/appdev.901/a89857/oci03typ.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=14922&edit=1