ID: 29292
Comment by: egarcia at egm dot as
Reported By: jmelville at selectaustralasia dot com dot au
Status: Open
Bug Type: MSSQL related
Operating System: Windows 2000 Server SP4
PHP Version: 4.3.8
New Comment:
I have the same problem, this is related to the 4.3.8.
To resolve for now, I'm using the mssql.dll extension from the 4.3.7
with the 4.3.8 with out problems.
In the Zend Debugger now I see the nulls like null, no like " " with
the 4.3.8 version.
I hope that this litte trick can be usefull meanwhile.
Previous Comments:
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[2004-07-21 11:22:17] jmelville at selectaustralasia dot com dot au
Description:
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Upgraded an existing server from PHP 4.3.2 to 4.3.8, Apache 1.3 on
Windows 2000 SP4. Database is SQL Server 2000 SP4 on the same machine.
All SQL queries that previously returned an empty string (e.g. the
varchar column in the database contains an empty string and is not
NULL) now return a single space character. I've confirmed in Query
Analyser that the fields are definitely empty.
Note the sample uses mssql_fetch_object() but I've also checked
mssql_fetch_array() and it does the same thing.
This is the same as bug #9854 but that bug is closed and refers to PHP
4.0.x, whereas this server has never run anything older than 4.3.x
Thanks,
Julian.
Reproduce code:
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$sql = "SELECT TOP 5 * FROM jobs;
$rs = mssql_query($sql);
while ($job = mssql_fetch_object($rs))
{
print "rec_id: '$job->rec_id' fax: '$job->fax' \n";
}
Expected result:
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rec_id: '45336' fax: ''
rec_id: '40659' fax: '09 379 7785'
rec_id: '44934' fax: ''
Actual result:
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rec_id: '45336' fax: ' '
rec_id: '40659' fax: '09 379 7785'
rec_id: '44934' fax: ' '
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