Hi NG, I wonder if anyone has encountered any problems with values returned from an Oracle SQL query, more specifically when the result set is empty? 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. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php