ID: 31641 User updated by: tomasz at biznespolska dot pl Reported By: tomasz at biznespolska dot pl -Status: Bogus +Status: Open Bug Type: MSSQL related Operating System: win32 PHP Version: 4.3.10 New Comment:
I know that this bug have been already reported, but wasn't solved! This bug is very problematic. Many developers is still using old version 4.3.3, because of this very bug! I cannot add my comments there, because another sentence says: "You can not add comments for bugs with the statuses:Closed, Duplicate, Wont fix, Bogus, Stale" I thought that I explain it in 3rd line of my description. Now I am suggesting new solution, to fix bug which is located in underlying MS DBLib. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-22 01:01:46] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not submit the same bug more than once. An existing bug report already describes this very problem. Even if you feel that your issue is somewhat different, the resolution is likely to be the same. Thank you for your interest in PHP. The first line in the bug reporting page says: "Before you report a bug, make sure to search for similar bugs using the form at the top of the page or our advanced search page." There are many reports about this already, add your comments to those (all of them have status closed or bogus) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-21 17:20:38] tomasz at biznespolska dot pl Ofcourse I mean "empty strings" not "empty spaces". Should be: "It is very rare that someone will store in database single space, but storing empty string is very common." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-21 17:12:44] tomasz at biznespolska dot pl Description: ------------ I'd like to continue thread: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25777 Because it's already closed I wasn't able to add my comments there. By disabling rtriming of text fields, new bug was introduced - empty strings are returned as single space. I know that is because of MS DBLib, but there is no problem to fix that in PHP. It is very rare that someone will store in database single space, but storing empty spaces is very common. So in my opinion most common usage should be considered. For example: if ( empty($text_from_db) ) { // do something } In my opinion ' ' should replaced by ''. I don't how to submit this to CVS, so I put it here: ext/mssql/mssql.c line 805: case SQLTEXT: { int length; char *data = charcol(offset); length=dbdatlen(mssql_ptr->link,offset); #if ilia_0 while (length>0 && data[length-1] == ' ') { /* nuke trailing whitespace */ length--; } #endif if ( length==1 && data[0]==' ' ) { /* single space to empty string */ length=0; } Z_STRVAL_P(result) = estrndup(data,length); Z_STRLEN_P(result) = length; Z_TYPE_P(result) = IS_STRING; break; } Reproduce code: --------------- //mssql_connect(...); var_dump(mssql_fetch_row(mssql_query("SELECT ''"))); Expected result: ---------------- array(1) { [0]=> string(0) "" } Actual result: -------------- array(1) { [0]=> string(1) " " } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31641&edit=1
