Re: HELP!!!

That means the something returned a null value - from the looks of it you might want to try $mysql_link = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpasswd); Then you might want ot say mysql_select_db(dbname); check out http://www.php.net/manual/function.mysql-connect.php for some example code. Ken http://cleveland.lug.net/~rocket/ The answer is simple if you grant that ironies are like submarines; dangerous only when submerged. On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Joel Johnston wrote: > I'm a newbie!! now that thats outta the way, I need help. I'm trying to > do a simple query to my MySQL datasource. Whenever I do a query and try > to report anything from the results I get the following error. > > > Warning: 0 is not a MySQL result index in > /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/sanddollarauto.com/php3/testconnect.php3 on > line 23 > > It doesn't matter what the query contains or how it is output. I get > this error no matter what I do. I'm a Cold Fusion Developer and am new > to PHP but shouldn't the following code work? > > > <?php > > $dbuser = 'root'; > > $dbhost = 'localhost'; > > $dbpass = 'password'; > > $dbname = 'sand'; > > $dbtble = 'new_cars'; > > $mysql_link = mysql_connect(); > > $column = > mysql_list_fields($dbname,$dbtble,$mysql_link); > > > { > print mysql_field_name($column,1)."<br>"; > } > > ?> > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >