On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:50:19AM -0500, Chris Faust wrote:
> Is this really true??
>
> >> > #here is the problem area
> >> > while ($row = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
> >>
> >> Here you are storing your fetchrow_array to a scalar, which
> >> means $row contains the number of columns in the select (1), you
> >> need to store it to an array:
>
> I do this all the time when I know for a fact that I'm only going to match
> on a single row and get a single value.
No, it's not really true. fetchrow_array() uses wantarray() to determine
what context it is being called in, and in scalar context it returns just
the first value selected.
Ronald
