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Re: [PHP4BETA] 'resource' data type From: rasmus <email protected>
Date: 12/22/99

> It seems that there's a new data type in PHP4 called a "resource". The
> function ifx_connect() which returned an int in PHP3 returns a 'resource' in
> PHP4. If I recall correctly, there is also a function called is_resource(),
> but I can't test it at the moment. I've searched high and low for any
> documentation on this issue, but haven't found anything. If you know
> anything about this, or can direct me toward any documentation on this,
> please email me or respond to this post.
>
> This happens to be an important issue for us, and may be as well for other
> people, as we have a lot of code that checks the return value of
> ifx_connect() with is_integer(). When we tried to migrate to PHP4, our
> scripts reported failure connecting to Informix. It took a lot of debugging
> to figure out what the problem was. I hope this is documented somewhere,
> because I'm sure other people will have similar problems.

Hopefully not too many people did an is_integer() check on the return from
a db connect function. They happened to be integers in PHP 3 and they are
no longer integers in PHP 4. You need to change your code.

-Rasmus 

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