Re: Stricter Error Checking?

Tim Legg wrote: > Hello, > > I just spent way, way to much time trying to debug code due to a misnamed element. Here is a > simplified example of the problem I dealt with. > > > $test = "SELECT * FROM Materials WHERE > Part_Number = '125664'"; > $result = mysql_query($test,$handle); > if(!$result) > { > die('Error: ' . mysql_error()); > } > $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); > echo $row['Number']; > > After retyping the code 3 or 4 times over the course of the morning, I finally found where the > problem was. The problem is that the database field is called 'Part_Number', not > 'Number'. The field 'Number' does not exist in the database. I am very > surprised that I didn't even get a warning that there might be a problem with the statement. > All I saw is that nothing was being returned via the echo command. > > There really must be a stricter error checking that is turned on somewhere, isn't there? > > > Thanks for your help. > > Tim > > > When developing you should always use something like this: ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); error_reporting(E_ALL); -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com