Serious problem...

I checked out php4 today, and compiled it on windows and linux.

The bang (!) in the if statement changes the resource to
if(!($connection=ociplogon("scott","tiger","orcl"))) {
var_dump($connection) = resource(1) of type (Unknown)
w/out the bang(!)
if(($connection=ociplogon("scott","tiger","orcl"))) {
var_dump($connection) = resource(1) of type (oci8 connection)

This code fails miserably:

<?
$connection=0;
$statement=0;
if(!($connection=ociplogon("scott","tiger","orcl"))) {  echo "above result is false, so this will probably never happen<br>\n";
}
var_dump($connection);
$query = "select user from dual";
$statement=OCIParse($connection,$query);
OCIExecute($statement);
OCIFetch($statement);
echo OCIResult($statement,1)."<br>\n";
OCIFreeStatement($statement);
?>

if(!($connection=ociplogon("scott","tiger","orcl"))) 

Should be fixed in latest CVS