At 9:05 AM +0100 6/22/01, Russ Michell wrote:
>  > Is this a new use of the function mysql_num_rows?
>No!.


It's not a change in syntax, but it is a change in PHP's behavior.
In PHP 4, mysql_num_rows() and mysql_num_fields() will issue error
messages if the argument is not a result set.  In PHP 3 they didn't
seem to do this.  This may account for the new error messages after
updating PHP.

>
>You can use the @ to 'suppress error messages' that may reveal
>delicate information to users such as paths to directories on your
>server. It can be preppended to almost any php function likely to
>result in an error, if used incorrectly.
>
>Russ
>
>On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:30:03 +0200 Tom=?ISO-8859-1?B?4XMgR2FyY+0=?=a
>Ferrari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  I updated php to version 4.0.5 and MySQL to version 2.32.39, had errors
>>  on lines like this:
>>
>>      $rows = mysql_num_rows($result);
>>
>>  and noticed that this is a solution:
>>
>>      $rows = @mysql_num_rows($result);
>>
>>  Is this a new use of the function mysql_num_rows?
>>
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