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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to compare a parameter to a string Post 302385743 by shira on Saturday 9th of January 2010 01:14:41 PM
Old 01-09-2010
ok, I discovered the problem, but it's very odd.
At the beginning of the script I defined parameter.
I echoed it right after the definition and it was okay.

I echoed it right before the if like you said, but it showed me that inside parameter, instead of string, there was 0!

It's as if parameter was changed throughout the script, but I didn't touch it until I got to the if part!

Do you have any idea why this thing could happen?

Thanks.
 

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SYBASE_CONNECT(3)														 SYBASE_CONNECT(3)

sybase_connect - Opens a Sybase server connection

SYNOPSIS
resource sybase_connect ([string $servername], [string $username], [string $password], [string $charset], [string $appname], [bool $new = false]) DESCRIPTION
sybase_connect(3) establishes a connection to a Sybase server. In case a second call is made to sybase_connect(3) with the same arguments, no new link will be established, but instead, the link identi- fier of the already opened link will be returned. The link to the server will be closed as soon as the execution of the script ends, unless it's closed earlier by explicitly calling sybase_close(3). PARAMETERS
o $servername - The servername argument has to be a valid servername that is defined in the 'interfaces' file. o $username - Sybase user name o $password - Password associated with $username. o $charset - Specifies the charset for the connection o $appname - Specifies an appname for the Sybase connection. This allow you to make separate connections in the same script to the same data- base. This may come handy when you have started a transaction in your current connection, and you need to be able to do a separate query which cannot be performed inside this transaction. o $new - Whether to open a new connection or use the existing one. RETURN VALUES
Returns a positive Sybase link identifier on success, or FALSE on failure. CHANGELOG
+--------+------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | The $new parameter was added. | | | | | 4.2.0 | | | | | | | The $appname parameter was added. | | | | | 4.0.2 | | | | | | | The $charset parameter was added. | | | | +--------+------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 sybase_connect(3) example <?php $link = sybase_connect('SYBASE', '', '') or die("Could not connect !"); echo "Connected successfully"; sybase_close($link); ?> SEE ALSO
sybase_pconnect(3), sybase_close(3). PHP Documentation Group SYBASE_CONNECT(3)
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