PJ wrote:
> Could somebody please explain to me what is wrong with this code?
> In my script it works, returns the correct id, but when I try it in a
> test pages, nothing in the world gets it to work. This is rather
> frustrating, again:
> THIS WORKS IN ANOTHER PAGE; IN THE TEST PAGE ID DOES NOT.
> $sql = "SELECT id FROM publishers
> WHERE publisher = 'whoever'";
> $result = mysql_query($sql,$db);
> $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
> if (mysql_num_rows($result) !== 0) {
> $pub = $row['id'];
> Syntax is ok, echo "hello"; works.
>
>
> This works in the test page:
> $aid = array();
> $ord = array();
> $sql = "SELECT authID, ordinal
> FROM book_author WHERE bookid = 624 ORDER BY ordinal ASC";
> $result = mysql_query($sql, $db);
> //$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
> while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) ) {
> $aid[]=$row['authID'];
> $ord[]=$row['ordinal'];
> }
> var_dump($aid);
> echo "<br />";
> var_dump($ord);
> echo $aid[0], " - ";
> echo $ord[0];
>
> This does not:
> $fi="joe"; $la="joe";
> $sql = "SELECT id FROM author
> WHERE first_name = '$fi' && last_name = '$la'";
> $result = msql_query($sql, $db);
> $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
> $count=mysql_num_rows($result);
> echo $count;
> if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
> $a_id=$row['id'];
> }
> echo $a_id, "<br /><br />";
> The test page prints out echo "some text"; but no results when the
> results are there....
> Tell me I have missed something simple here, or is this normal for php ?
> I have checked the queries on Mysql command line and they are fine.
> I have verified the syntax and Netbeans tells me it is fine.
> Same results Firefox3 (2 machines) & IE 8.
> What is not fine?
>
I was preaching this to you months ago. You should have error reporting turned on in a development
area.
by that I mean php should be set to display_errors = on and error_reporting = E_ALL
Give this a try in a development area and "you will see the errors of your ways..."
--
Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
by William Shakespeare
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