Re: [PHP4BETA] Change for MySQL NULL columns

+1... How much is this expected to delay v4? --Joey Smith Please forgive the long sig: *** Notice To Bulk Emailers: Attention! Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, any & all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of the $1500 US and copies will be forwarded to domain administrators. Emailing denotes acceptance of said terms! On Fri, 12 May 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > I don't remember if this was discussed before or not, but I just > discovered that a select which may potentially have NULL results in some > rows will not be fully returned by mysql_fetch_array(). NULL results > just disappear. I think they should be returned as PHP's NULL values. > > We'd like to make a change where the NULL values would be returned as > part of the array. However, this may potentially break some scripts > which depend on not having NULL values in the returned arrays. But since > the same script can receive "" (empty) value from the database and the > difference between NULL and "" is not that great, we feel that the > consequences will be minimal. > > Unless we receive lots of strenuous objections to this, we'll implement > the change before PHP 4 release. > > -Andrei > * We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. * > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > >