Ok this is starting to get complex! (For me anyway) This is my function: function get_order_numbers() { $conn = db_connect(); $query = "select orders.orderid from orders, email where orders.orderid = email.orderid and email.checked='no'"; $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Error: cannot select orderid<BR>$query<BR>".mysql_error()); while( $row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { extract($row); $orderid = $row; $query2 = "SELECT * FROM orders WHERE orderid=\"$orderid\""; $result2 = mysql_query($query2) or die("Error: cannot fetch order<BR>$query2<BR>".mysql_error()); extract(mysql_fetch_array($result2)); } }
The SQL works Ok. At least I get no errors now. It's my PHP to display the SQL I think I get a result of 8 errors with the following message. Warning: Wrong datatype in call to extract() in /www/u1255/eadmin/eshop_fns.php on line 40. Where line 40 is: extract(mysql_fetch_array($result2)); I am trying to display the message on another page using: <? include ('eshop_fns.php'); get_order_numbers(); $ship_name = $result2["ship_name"]; echo "tests and $ship_name"; ?> What does extract do? I am under the assumption it extracts row information so why a datatype error? Any pointers? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php