Tyler Longren pressed the little lettered thingies in this order...
> What about when DELETING from a table??? It always returns true.
> Example...the highest ID in this table is 10:
>
> <?
> if ($connection = mysql_connect("localhost","mysql","mysql")) {
> print "Connection established";
> $db = mysql_select_db("aanr", $connection);
> if ($sql = mysql_query("DELETE FROM bullitens WHERE id='1212'")) {
> print "Successful";
> }
> else {
> print "Not successful.";
> }
> }
> else {
> print "Connection NOT established.";
> }
> ?>
>
> We try to delete the bulliten with id of 1212, but there is not bulliten
> with that ID, and it says "Successful".
>
> I know I could use mysql_affected_rows(), but why doesn't this work???
>
mysql_query() is not intended to be used as a means by which you can
check the number of rows that are affected. If it returned FALSE severy
time your query was empty, you would have to rewrite all of your of code
to eliminate errors. It only checks for the validity of your query.
To ask why this doesn't work would be the same thing as asking why
you can type this query from the command-line mysql client and the
query succeeds without an error. It succeeds and says "0 rows."
It's a valid query with zero results. A FALSE return from a programming
function indicates an error condition, not the lack of results.
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