paperCrane <Justin Patrin>
David T-G wrote:
Justin, et al --
...and then Justin Patrin said...
% % David T-G wrote:
% % >...and then Justin Patrin said...
% >% ...
% >% Of course, this leaves the result handle open. It's best to store the % >% result handle and free it with mysql_free_result().
% >
% >Makes sense. I actually hadn't thought of that; do I need to do that
% >after a typical while(mysql_fetch_array()) or does the exhaustion caused
% >by the while loop then close and free for me?
% % Nope, it's kept open so that you can use a seek to go back to the % beginning i fyou want to (at least, I'm pretty sure that's what it's % doing). You should always use mysql_free_result on your statement/result % handle.
Ahhhhh... Very interesting. One learns something every day :-)
% % Of course, you don't *really* need to do this if your script is small as % PHP will free everything when it's done, but it's good coding style and % can keep you from (possibly) running out of memory in larger scripts.
Right. And surely someone who so fastidiously fclose()s every fopen()ed file, even if it was opened read-only, would want to tie up any loose db ends in the same way!
One last question... If I make a query and run through the results and then make another query, reusing the same result handle, should I have freed the first result before assigning the second? That is, does that handle get closed automatically or orphaned for garbage collection at the end of the script?
% % -- % paperCrane <Justin Patrin>
Thanks again & HAND
:-D
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