----- Original Message ----- From: Evert Lammerts <evert.lammerts@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:12 pm Subject: Re: numeric string to single digit array > > > I ran this > > > > $query ="Select answer from answers where studentID ='A123456789'"; > > $result = mysql_query($query,$connection); > > $resultArray = str_split($result,1); > > $count = count($resultArray); > > > > Where's the fetch? > > |$result = mysql_query("SELECT answer FROM answers WHERE studentID > = > 'A123456789';"); > $count = 0; > while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { > $count++; > } > > |Of course you should count in the query if the result itself is > not used: > > |$result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(answer) AS nr_of_results FROM > answers WHERE studentID = 'A123456789';"); > $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); > $count = $row['||nr_of_results||'];|| > | > Evert > PHP is telling me that the resource I am using for mysql_fetch_assoc is invalid: $query ="Select answer from answers where studentID ='A123456789'"; $result = mysql_query($query,$connection); $count=0; while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)); { $count++; } echo $count; -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php