Re: exasperated again - shot in the foot

> 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?
>>
>>
> Damn, it's frustrating to find that there is a difference between msql
> and mysql... ouch, the foot hurts now!
>
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