Use a tinyint field in mysql, (which is what bool gets translated to I think)
and you'll get a number back, 0 = false, 1 = true, and you can:
if ($fieldname) {
do true item;
}
if (!$fieldname) {
do false item;
}
This works for me, I've done before quite a bit in the past.
-Mic
You can cast it to a boolean
(http://phpbuilder.com/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php#language.types.typecasting)
if (bool($IsAMember) == true) ...
bastien
From: Larry Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [PHP-DB] Bit(1) datatype from mySQL
Date: Sat, 07 Ja
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Greetings:
I'm new to PHP, although I've been a programmer all my life. I had been
doing a bit of web database work with VB Script and ASP and mySQL, and then
decided to try PHP. I've run into a couple of things that bother me.
I have boolean fields (i.e. bit(1)) in the mySQL database. When I
