Please make extract() return true if there was an array to process, or false if the value of the 'array' parameter was not an array  This change will  simplify iterating a database,  and may be usefile elsewhere.


After the following query:

   $Result = mysql_query( "SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3 FROM Table" );


you will be able to display the conents of the table with:

   while( extract( mysql_fetch_array( $Result )) {
      echo $Field1, $Field2, $Field3;
      }


rather than:

   while( $A = mysql_fetch_array( $Result )) {
      extract( $A );
      echo $Field1, $Field2, $Field3;
      }


This change should not affect backwards compatability, as existing users of extract() don't expect any return value.