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Bug #55291 All ODBC Queries Return INTs as Strings For Multiple ODBC Drivers
Submitted: 2011-07-26 21:44 UTC Modified: 2011-12-01 05:35 UTC
Votes:9
Avg. Score:4.8 ± 0.6
Reproduced:7 of 8 (87.5%)
Same Version:6 (85.7%)
Same OS:5 (71.4%)
From: brandonkirsch at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: ODBC related
PHP Version: 5.3.6 OS: SUSE SLES 10 SP2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2011-07-26 21:44 UTC] brandonkirsch at gmail dot com
Description:
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odbc_* and PDO ODBC functions are each returning SQL integer values as PHP 
strings. However, SQL NULL values properly appear as PHP NULL values.

I have tested against multiple ODBC providers (FreeTDS and iSeries Access for 
Linux).


System:

SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 10 (SP2) - 32bit

Linux dev-webhost1 2.6.16.60-0.42.5-default #1 Mon Aug 24 09:41:41 UTC 2009 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

UnixODBC

PHP 5.3.6 from source

./configure  --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-
mssql=/usr/local/freetds --with-ldap --prefix=/usr/local/php5 --with-config-
file-
path=/usr/local/php5/etc --enable-sockets --enable-soap --with-openssl --with-
unixODBC=/usr --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-pdo-odbc=unixODBC,/usr


Test script:
---------------
1. odbc_* against FreeTDS to SQL Server 2008:

$odbc = odbc_connect('hpsql3','--censored--','--censored--');
$or = odbc_exec($odbc,'SELECT 1');
var_dump(odbc_fetch_array($or)); // array( string "1" )


2. odbc_* against iSeries Access for Linux to AS/400:

$odbc = odbc_connect('iSeriesDSN','--','--');
$or = odbc_exec($odbc,'SELECT 1 FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1');
var_dump(odbc_fetch_array($or)); // array( string "1" )


3. PDO against FreeTDS to SQL Server 2008

$pdo = new PDO('odbc:hpsql3','--','--');
var_dump($pdo->query('SELECT 1')->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)); // array (string "1")


4. PDO against iSeries Access for Linux to AS/400

$pdo = new PDO('odbc:iSeriesDSN','--','--');
var_dump($pdo->query('SELECT 1 FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1')->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)); // array (string "1")

Expected result:
----------------
I expect to get arrays containing (int) 1

Actual result:
--------------
I actually get arrays containing (string) "1"

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 [2011-12-01 05:35 UTC] ssufficool@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2011-12-01 05:35 UTC] ssufficool@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

Most database layers convert numeric values to strings to preserve their precision as PHP does not support all numeric precisions which a database might (i.e. 64 bit integers). Since strings may be silently converted to numeric in PHP ("1" + 2 = 3), this should not pose too much of an issue.
 [2012-02-07 08:50 UTC] martijntje at martijnotto dot nl
I have no idea why this bug is closed as bogus.

The current behavior is wrong for many reasons:
- Higher memory usage (can be problematic with big datasets)
- This forces one to use is_numeric instead of is_int, is_float, etc (much slower)
- Removed the option for strict comparison: "1" === 1 => false
 [2012-09-10 23:30 UTC] brandonkirsch at gmail dot com
FYI - For those of you still struggling with this "Not a bug" - there are 
functions available (odbc_field_type, mssql_field_type) that can help you re-cast 
your database numerics back to their correct types in PHP.
 
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