On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:54 pm, Evan Panagiotopoulos wrote: > I am searching a table and have the following php code with my > comments: > > $result = mysql_query($query); > print "The result == $result"; > // it returns The result == Resource id #2" > if (!mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > ... > } else { > while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > ... > } > } Try -> $result = mysql_query($query); // Test to see if the query failed if ($result === false) { die('some meaningful message'); } // Test to see if there are results to return if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) { // Get results while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { .... } } else { echo 'No Results'; } -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php