Re: DB/DB_oci8 question

Karsten Kraus wrote: > > Hi list, > > I'm not sure if I am right here with this one: > > I'm using the PEAR-DB-Class (DB_oci8-backend) > to connect (now wonder - an Oracle 8i DB). > It works quite fine, but now I have one little prob... > all the values I get from the DB_Result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC) > are strings! Is that an error in my code or is it a general problem? > I just want my integers and floats/doubles back ;-( > That's a common problem in all the backends (not sure if all). There is a small note about that: " Keep in mind that database functions in PHP usually return string values for results regardless of the database's internal type." It would help a lot in many circumstances that the data type returned might be converted into a php data type. Please go to php-dev and propose that :-) Tomas V.V.Cox