. No reading that section of the manual did me no good. I do not understand other than I cannot store the results as a variable.
Is there any of what I have done that is usable? A recommendation for a book that covers this would be helpful... the manual on this area is way to abbreviated for someone who has only used PHP for 2 weeks. Mike "Kurt Lieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message E15ydj6-0003KZ-00@z8">news:E15ydj6-0003KZ-00@z8... > On Tuesday 30 October 2001 10:13 am, turtle wrote: > > > <? > > $link = mysql_connect('localhost')or die ("Could not connect"); > > mysql_select_db('img760')or die ("Could not select database"); > > $query = "select ('imglocation','height','width') from img where > > imgname=$getimg"; > > $imglocation = 'imglocation'; > > $height = 'height'; > > $width = 'width'; > > ?> > > You need to read the manual on the mysql functions. > > Specifically, functions like mysql_fetch_array, mysql_fetch_row, > mysql_result. You're setting $imglocation to a string, not a returned result > from mysql. You need to use one of the three functions I mentioned to retun > an actual mysql result. > > --kurt -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]