Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-10 Thread Michael Dykman
My apologies.. I scanned back looking for the reference but couldn't find it... I thought it worth reiterating what turned out to be your point because there seems to be so much confusion around this issue. - michael On 8/9/07, Brent Baisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I said to m

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Dykman
IF it is a null in that column, you should not see the word 'null'.. and the advise to put quotes around it I read earlier in this thread is completely misguided.. If you insert the string 'null' or 'NULL' into the database, you have just strored a string.. Perhaps it is the form of your queries

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-09 Thread Mahmoud Badreddine
I did remove that column from the insert statement and no text appeared at all in that field under that column. Not even the word "NULL". On 8/8/07, Christian High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/8/07, Brent Baisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing to check is to make sure you are not

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-09 Thread Mahmoud Badreddine
Hi I added the following statement at the end of the my.cnf file: sql-mode="STRICT_ALL_TABLES,ALLOW_INVALID_DATES" but I still got the values 0 and 0.00 where no values were entered. I did restart the the mysql daemon of course. What am I still doing wrong? Thanks. On 8/8/07, Christian High <

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-08 Thread Christian High
On 8/8/07, Brent Baisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing to check is to make sure you are not quoting your NULL > value for your insert statement. MySQL will try to convert that to a > numeric value, which may end up as 0. > > On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Mahmoud Badreddine wrote: > > > Hell

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-08 Thread Brent Baisley
One thing to check is to make sure you are not quoting your NULL value for your insert statement. MySQL will try to convert that to a numeric value, which may end up as 0. On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Mahmoud Badreddine wrote: Hello I have a table which contain a few numerical values. I set

Re: Inserting null values in mysql with PHP

2007-08-08 Thread Michael Dykman
That is MySQL, not PHP doing that to you. You need to set your SQL_MODE to strict to get that kind of behavior.. there are other implications to this mode so you should review: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html - michael On 8/8/07, Mahmoud Badreddine <[EMAIL PROTECTE