From: danielc at analysisandsolutions dot com
Operating system: Windows 2000
PHP version: 5CVS-2004-06-24 (dev)
PHP Bug Type: MySQL related
Bug description: MYSQLI_TYPE_STRING != mysqli_fetch_field() type for VARCHAR column
Description:
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The "type" value returned from mysqli_fetch_field() for a VARCHAR field is
253. The manual says the constant for VARCHAR fields is MYSQLI_TYPE_STRING
which has a value of 254. So, there's no way to determine column types via
constants for VARCHAR's.
Reproduce code:
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mysqli_query($db->connection,
'CREATE TABLE bar (Cf VARCHAR(5))');
$r = mysqli_query($db->connection,
'SELECT Cf FROM bar');
$tmp = mysqli_fetch_field($r);
echo "type found = $tmp->type\n";
echo 'MYSQLI_TYPE_STRING = ' . MYSQLI_TYPE_STRING . "\n";
mysqli_query($db->connection,
'DROP TABLE bar');
Expected result:
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type found = 254
MYSQLI_TYPE_STRING = 254
Actual result:
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type found = 253
MYSQLI_TYPE_STRING = 254
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