Re: PHP Mystery

And var_dump($result1) will post the contents of $result1 to the screen, which can be really useful for dev. Jasper Kips <jasper@planetkips.nl> wrote: >The problem lies in this statement: if(!$result1). >Mysqli_query returns returns an object, except when the query fails. >The query doesn't fail when the number of found rows is zero. So, if >your query is syntactically correct, but there is no data found, >$result1 is not false, but an object. >Do a test for $result1->num_rows, like this: if ( 0 === >$result1->num_rows ) echo "No data found". > >Jasper > >Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad > >> Op 22 jun. 2014 om 07:00 heeft "Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" ><erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com> het volgende geschreven: >> >> Dear List - >> >> Here is a simple program. >> >> It ran before, but not now... >> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" >"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> >> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> >> >> <html> >> <head> >> </head> >> <body> >> <div align="center"> >> <form method="post"> >> <input type='text' name=phone></input> >> <input type='submit'> >> <br /><br /><br /> >> </form> >> </div> >> <?php >> error_reporting(-1); >> require '/home/ethan/PHP/ethan.inc'; >> $db = "Store"; >> $cxn = mysqli_connect($host,$user,$password,$db); >> if (!$cxn) >> { >> die('Connect Error (' . mysqli_connect_errno() . ') ' >> . mysqli_connect_error()); >> } >> >> //if no connection no error message >> >> $phn = $_POST[phone]; >> >> //Phone is a 10 digit numerical string, no spaces >> >> $phn = (string)$phn; >> >> $dsh = '-'; >> $Phn = >$phn[0].$phn[1].$phn[2].$dsh.$phn[3].$phn[4].$phn[5].$dsh.$phn[6].$phn[7].$phn[8].$phn[9]; >> >> //construct phone number 123-466-7890 >> >> $sql1 ="select Lname, Fname from Customers where Phone = >'$Phn' "; >> >> $result1 = mysqli_query($cxn, $sql1); >> if(!$result1) >> { >> ?> >> <div align="center"> >> >> <strong>No Match Found</strong> >> <br /><br /> >> </div> >> <?php >> } >> >> //if query fails, no error message. >> >> >> //code to display query results, not listed. >> >> >> >> TIA >> >> Ethan >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.