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ID: 43203 Comment by: r dot wilczek at web-appz dot de Reported by: lafriks at inbox dot lv Summary: PDO better support for float bind values Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: PDO related PHP Version: 5.2.4 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The missing PDO::PARAM_DOUBLE actually leads to very annoying problems. SQLite considers a NUMERIC to be always less than a TEXT or REAL. So string '1' is not less than double 1.1. The following unparameterized statement shows this behaviour: $rs = $sqlite->prepare('SELECT '1' < 1.1 as "result"'); $stmt->execute(); $rs = $stmt->fetch(); $stmt->closeCursor(); print_r($rs['result']); // 0 works as expected (and the same way as SQLite CLI.) Now we try to perform the same operation using a parameterized statement: $stmt = $sqlite->prepare('SELECT :left < :right as "result"'); Option A. Binding double as string: $stmt->bindValue(':left', '1', PDO::PARAM_STR); $stmt->bindValue(':right', 1.1, PDO::PARAM_STR); $stmt->execute(); $rs = $stmt->fetch(); $stmt->closeCursor(); print_r($rs['result']); // 1 failure. Option B. Binding double as integer: $stmt->bindValue(':left', '1', PDO::PARAM_STR); $stmt->bindValue(':right', 1.1, PDO::PARAM_INT); $stmt->execute(); $rs = $stmt->fetch(); $stmt->closeCursor(); print_r($rs['result']); // 0 Seems to work, but ... ... this way we cannot tell double from integer. SQLite would consider integer 1 to be less than double 1.1. $stmt->bindValue(':left', 1, PDO::PARAM_INT); $stmt->bindValue(':right', 1.1, PDO::PARAM_INT); $stmt->execute(); $rs = $stmt->fetch(); $stmt->closeCursor(); print_r($rs['result']); // 0 Failure So there is no way with PDO to correctly parameterize double values. I request to provide PDO::PARAM_DOUBLE. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-11-06 09:22:33] lafriks at inbox dot lv Description: ------------ It would be way easier to work with PDO if there was PDO::PARAM_FLOAT. Otherwise there is always need to check for comma and point if in different locales and that just makes it unnecessary hard to work with float numbers and binding to prepared statements. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43203&edit=1