SQL query does not return the expected value. PHP – MYSQL Code Answer

$uid=intval($_GET['uid']); //98765432109876543  

$sql = "SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE uid = $uid ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1";

Won’t return any result, PHP is 64bit.

Below I put the executed commands from mysql client. uid field is BIGINT

Output from the mysql client:

mysql> SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE id = 1 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1;

| id | uid       | paid_date           |

| 1 | 98765432109876543 | 2015-09-20 12:56:47  |

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Output from the mysql client: 

mysql> SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE uid=98765432109876543 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

So my question is, what is the reason I cannot retrieve the expected value from the first sql query?

Answer

I’ve executed your quires, just worked fine for me. You need to update your table schema.

I’ve tested with some thing like these.

First, I’ve create a table with uid as VARCHAR(50), and it returned fine results.

Check this Fiddle.

but what if you want uid as INT? you can’t use INT to store more than 10 or 11 char long string(integer) because it ranges from -2147483648 to 2147483647 and for UNSIGNED INT ranging from 0 to 4294967295.

So you’ve to use BIGINT instead, it ranges from -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807. Check this FIDDLE.

I assume that uid will never have value in -ve, so use BIGINT UNSIGNED, it ranges from 0 to 18446744073709551615 and that will also work for you.

Check this FIDDLE

To read more about limitations/ranges, please look here

Hope this will help you.