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 retrieve
data from the mySQL server into an array or an object, it seems as if all
the data fields are returned as characters. For most data types this does
not matter, since PHP will handle them properly. This an integer 46 being
retrieved as a character '46' is OK.
However, the boolean is a curse, as it comes back as a character containing
hex 00 or hex 01, and I have to use a test such as:
if (ord(IsAMember) == 0) ...
I can't just treat it as a boolean.
I have got around the problem by using a construct such as:
select if(IsAMember,1,0) as IsAMember
in the SQL select, but this is a bit of a pain.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Larry Bradley
Orleans (Ottawa), Ontario, CANADA
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