#25615 [Opn]: Result of dbx_query

ID: 25615 Updated by: mboeren@php.net Reported By: norbert at linuxnetworks dot de Status: Open -Bug Type: Feature/Change Request +Bug Type: Documentation problem PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: Besides the fact that this wouldn't be backwards compatible, I do not think that a return value of 1 is the exception case. Whenever you try an insert/update/delete query you expect either success or failure (1 or 0). When you do a select query you expect a result set or a failure. There is no need to test for a result-object OR success: successful select queries that produce no resultset do return an empty object as you described (except that cols will not be 0, and columnnames will be set if the ASSOC flag was passed). I see that the documentation incorrectly performs this test on a select query, so I can see why you would report this feature request. I'm changing this request to a be documentation problem, which I will fix shortly. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-09-20 14:42:27] norbert at linuxnetworks dot de Description: ------------ dbx_query should return an empty object (rows = 0, data empty) instead of 1. This would make code for the exception case (return value of 1) unnecessary. Furthermore the API don't have to be changed for this, so I would be an easy impovement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25615&edit=1