RE: [PHP] php 4.3.7/5.0

Josh Close wrote: > $result = mssql_query($sql); > $row = mssql_fetch_array($result); > $var = $row[0]; > > So it should be an int. And if it's copied into a function it > shouldn't be changed. > > But doing > > if($var) > > doesn't seem to work after I upgraded versions. Which is making me > think that they changed how that works. > > And using is_string() or is_int() is pointless 'cause it doesn't > matter. I just want to know if the value != 0. > > The problem is, if 0 gets changed to "0" somewhere throughout. That's > why I've always used if($var) because it's usually not cared what the > type is, but it seems to now. This sounds an awful lot like the problem I experienced with PHP's Sybase extension after upgrading to PHP 4.3.4. Is your query retrieving data from a bit field ('0' or '1')? If so, you might want to read this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=108377430919818&w=2 I never did get a response to it. I've had it on my TODO list to open it as a bug for the longest time, but I haven't had a chance to come up with minimal reproduce code and I frankly haven't had the time to deal with it. I managed to work around the problem by maintaining a local patch to PHP to undo the change mentioned in my post above. Let me know if this is your issue and I can explain more and/or provide my simple patch.