Thanks!
I am still puzzled as to why it should return that value though :-/
Mikey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.windows
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Strange result returned from Oracle
> Mikey,
> I would put the if condition (or a while loop, if you are retrieving more
> than 1 row) around the ocifetchinto, and not after that, as in your code.
> Here is how I would write it (off my head, not tested):
>
> $sql = "SELECT \"irpUser\" FROM tblUsers WHERE
> \"swmEmail\"='{$_POST['swmEmail']}'";
> $sth = ociparse ($conn, $sql) or die ("Couldn't parse SQL: $sql<br>\n");
> ociexecute ($sth) or die ("Couldn't execute SQL: $sql<br>\n");
> if (ocifetchinto ($sth, $usr, OCI_ASSOC)) {
> // Do stuff here with $usr['irpUser']
> }
> else {
> // No rows returned here
> }
>
> HTH
> Francesco
> --------------------------
> "Mikey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have
> > the following code:
> >
> > $sql = "SELECT \"irpUser\" FROM tblUsers WHERE
> > \"swmEmail\"='{$_POST['swmEmail']}'";
> > $sth = ociparse ($conn, $sql)
> > or die ("Couldn't parse SQL: $sql<br>\n");
> > ociexecute ($sth)
> > or die ("Couldn't execute SQL: $sql<br>\n");
> > ocifetchinto ($sth, $usr, OCI_ASSOC);
> > if ($usr['irpUser'] == "")
> > {
> > // Do stuff here
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > //Something else
> > }
> >
> > Now, when the query brings back a record everything works fine, but when
> the
> > query returns nothing (i.e. brand new user) it still goes to the else
> branch
> > of the code. I have echo'ed $usr to the screen and it contains the
string
> > "SYSTEM". Now as far as my code goes I don;t think this is too much of
a
> > problem as I can just check for this string (normal values are integer),
> but
> > I can find no reference to this behaviour in the docs and would like to
> know
> > what is causing this return value. Any ideas?
> >
> > Mikey
> > ---
> > Developer - Radius Design Ltd.
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