fetch_foruminfo converts string to float

[TiKu]

Hi,

I've added a custom field 'ivw_code' to the 'forum' table. It is of type VARCHAR(25). If I call 'fetch_foruminfo' for a forum which has set this field to '12E03611', the returned array will contain the field as float(INF) instead of a string. This does not happen if I tell fetch_foruminfo to not use the cache, but read from the database.
So VB somewhere tries to be smart and converts the string to a float because of the 'E' in it. How can I avoid this?

Regards
TiKu

[kh99]

The code that builds the forumcache contains this (as part of a loop through the columns):

/* values which begin with 0 and are greater than 1 character are strings, since 01 would be an octal number in PHP */
if (is_numeric($val) AND !(substr($val, 0, 1) == '0' AND strlen($val) > 1) AND !in_array($key, array('title', 'title_clean', 'description', 'description_clean')))
{
	$newforum["$key"] += 0;
}

which (for some reason) forces a numeric type on fields that represent numbers. So I guess you would either need to store something that's not a number (like add a prefix to your code values), or if that doesn't work for you you could change that code (like adding 'ivw_code' to the array of column names in the code shown above).

[TiKu]

I don't want to edit VB files as this makes updates a pain. So now I'm prepending a character. It's an ugly hack, but it works. Thank you.