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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:06:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] database driver: no more rows
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)
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At 06:04 PM 10/22/2003 -0400, GPHemsley@aol.com wrote:

>Well, this would be my first time contributing to any discussion on this 
>list since I joined, but I have a question.
>
>It was suggested that this be implemented in PHP 5.0.0. Isn't PHP 5 so 
>much different than PHP 4 that scripts would have to be somewhat rewritten 
>for it anyway? (I'm not saying that PHP 5 is totally different, just 
>different enough.)
>

For PHP applications which are mostly functional there will be very little 
which will need to be fixed (if at all). Many OOP applications will also 
work and only some will need fixing. There will hopefully be a relative 
small amount of BC problems, and where BC was broken it was usually only 
when it was crucial.

>I don't think I've had any experince with those functions returning FALSE 
>for me, but I think it's more logical that they differentiate between the 
>FALSE and the NULL for the reasons stated above.

How is this dealt with today?

Andi