Thanks! I am still puzzled as to why it should return that value though :-/ Mikey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francesco" <francesco.marsan@xxxxxxx> Newsgroups: php.windows To: <php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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" <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php