Re: exasperated again - shot in the foot

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:48 PM, PJ<af.gourmet@...> wrote:
>> 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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>
> Blame the native, libraries that is
>
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