RE: [PHP] Struggling with code

I am now getting the following error: Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/httpd/vhosts/localhost/httpdocs/data/up.php on line 21 Why do you think that is? -----Original Message----- From: Jason Wong [mailto:php-general@gremlins.biz] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:53 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Struggling with code On Thursday 05 December 2002 13:24, Ben C. wrote: > I am struggling with the code below. I keep getting the error "Couldn't > execute query". Please help me out, let me know where I am going wrong. > > <? > > $db_name = "db1"; > $table_name = "user"; > > $connection = @mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password") or > die("Couldn't connect."); > > $db = @mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die("Couldn't select > database."); > > $sql = "UPDATE $table_name > SET > name = \"$name\", > lname = \"$lname\", > mobil = \"$mobil\", > email = \"$email\", > url = \"$url\", > WHERE id= \"$id\" > "; > > $result = @mysql_query($sql,$connection) or die("Couldn't execute query."); > > ?> How about NOT masking the error message by using mysql_query(), instead of @mysql_query(). And instead of using die(), use echo mysql_error(). -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* A rolling stone gathers no moss. -- Publilius Syrus */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php