ID:               26315
 Comment by:       jwhatcher at hotmail dot com
 Reported By:      webmaster at cbre dot fr
 Status:           Bogus
 Bug Type:         MSSQL related
 Operating System: Windows 2000 Server
 PHP Version:      4.3.4
 New Comment:

'' = ' '. Politely, this is a bug. In transact sql and query analyzer
'' is seen as '' but in php '' is seen as ' '. I am using varchar
fields. This surely breaks several lines of code for the empty function
is now useless when selecting '' out of the database. Please reconsider
and look into this item. 

Add autotrim to the ini file if this would fix the problem.


Previous Comments:
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[2004-06-20 02:49:52] spam2 at rhsoft dot net

hmm this is a bug
i developed a cms first for mysql and the port for postgre with select
database-type works very fine

the last two days i try to get it running with mssql/msde an nothing
works with this damned spaces

if (!empty($image)) echo "<img src=\"" . $image . "\" />"; for example
makes a big shit :-(

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[2004-05-24 21:23:07] hagen at woecht dot de

If you must make from a space to '' in your PHP script, how can you
distinguish between a "true" space or "faked" space?
All '' and space in the DB are then '' (:-((()

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[2004-04-23 10:25:51] tomasz at biznespolska dot pl

In my opinion this is bug, and is still present on version 4.3.6. This
is not only problem with CHAR, and NCHAR columns but also empty VARCHAR
columns returns space.

Example:
$re = mssql_fetch_row(mssql_query("SELECT CAST('' AS VARCHAR(10))"));
print('--'.$re[0].'--');
// the result is: -- --
// and should be: ----

Because of that I still use PHP4.3.3.

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[2004-03-24 04:33:03] francois dot zietlow at ri-solution dot com

The Protocol have been changed.
Quote from Sybase Doco.

[quote]
The empty string ("") is treated as a single space. In *char* and
*nchar* *not null* columns, the result is a (column-length) field of
spaces.
[/quote]

Found on Bug Report:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=6527


Its not nice...
Just I write my own empty-Function.....


Francois

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[2004-03-24 04:18:11] francois dot zietlow at ri-solution dot com

I think that is a Bug, too.
I have the same Problem.
It's not a solution to trim any value. Or??

@iliaa:
Please write why do you think it's not a Bug.


Thanks!
Francois

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