Here is a patch that should fix the issues.

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Index: DB/common.php
===================================================================
RCS file: /repository/pear/DB/DB/common.php,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -u -r1.22 common.php
--- DB/common.php       22 Jul 2003 21:54:16 -0000      1.22
+++ DB/common.php       18 Aug 2003 11:20:54 -0000
@@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@
      */

     function &getAssoc($query, $force_array = false, $params = array(),
-                       $fetchmode = DB_FETCHMODE_ORDERED, $group = false)
+                       $fetchmode = 'default', $group = false)
     {
         settype($params, "array");
         if (sizeof($params) > 0) {
@@ -1049,6 +1049,9 @@
         } else {
             $res = $this->query($query);
         }
+        if ($fetchmode == 'default') {
+            $fetchmode = $this->fetchmode;
+        }

         if (DB::isError($res)) {
             return $res;


Note: I also have a patch that fixes the oci8 problem #25067

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This problem is not solved. I had code using the setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC) in a previous version (2001, $Id: DB.php,v 1.73.2.2 2001/11/13 01:26:39 
and
$Id: mysql.php,v 1.69.2.3 2001/11/13 01:26:42 ) and it worked correctly. Now in the version shipped with SuSE Linux 9.0 (version from 6/2004:
$Id: common.php,v 1.21 2003/06/20 20:41:30 cox Exp $
and:
$Id: mysql.php,v 1.19 2003/06/21 16:45:26 cox Exp $
it does not work correctly. 
Putting some tracing in mysql.php I found that $this->fetchmode == 2 (which is correct) but that $fetchmode == 1 (which is the default DB_FETCHMODE_ORDERED). So it seems that setFetchMode works correctly but that the new value is not passed to the method at execution time.

> $Id: common.php,v 1.21 2003/06/20 20:41:30 cox Exp $
> $Id: mysql.php,v 1.19 2003/06/21 16:45:26 cox Exp $
Those seem to be quite old files. mysql.php is currently at 1.71, in the DB-1.6.2 package.

You should try running "pear upgrade DB" to install the latest version of the PEAR::DB package, and see if that helps.
While you're at it, you might like to update the rest of PEAR aswell (running "pear upgrade-all" will do that), since the PEAR shipped with your SUSE seems to be quite outdated :)

The versions of the files you're using are dated 2003/06/20 and 2003/06/21.  The bug was fixed on 2003/08/28.  So, of course it's not fixed in the version you're using.

There have been significant fixes and enhancements to DB since then.  The current version is 1.6.2.  Update your installation.

Thansk for the VERY quick reactions! But even after updating to the latest versions (some 7/4/2004), the problem continues.

This is the code which worked correctly:
 $db->setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC) ;
 while ($qry->fetchInto($rowout)) { /*display the data */

but it works only if I put
 while ($qry->fetchInto($rowout,DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC )) { /*display the data   */

Putting as tracing in mysql.php before lin 287 in fucntion fetchInto :
 echo "mysql.php: fetchmode = $fetchmode; this fetchmode = ".$this->fetchmode."<br>\n";
        if ($fetchmode & DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC) {
gives as result:
mysql.php: fetchmode = 1; this fetchmode = 2

and I receive a numbered array instead of a associative array!

This works fine for me:

<?php
$db->query('CREATE TABLE blah (a integer)');
$db->query('INSERT INTO blah VALUES (5)');
$res =& $db->query('SELECT a FROM blah');
$db->setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
while ($res->fetchInto($row)) {
    print_r($row);
}
$db->query('DROP TABLE blah');
?>

Seems like you have a bug in your script.