[PHP-DB] Error: "Resource id #3"

2005-05-14 Thread Marc Henri
Hello, I'm starting to learn how to manage databases with MySQL/PHP. The program is very basic but I have a strange error: "Resource id #3". I read many things on Internet and understood that others have this error because they are trying to echo the pointer of the query and not the result itself.

Re: [PHP-DB] Error: "Resource id #3"

2005-05-14 Thread Firan Corneliu
The message that you receive is not an error, it is a description of the object $result after the query is done. So, you will not get anywhere just by echo $result, you have to process that information using one of the mysql_fetch_array(),mysql_fetch_assoc(), mysql_result(). In your case try :

RE: [PHP-DB] Error: "Resource id #3"

2005-05-14 Thread Bastien Koert
> $value) { echo $key . " :: ". $value; } } //the query didn't work else echo mysql_error(); } else echo mysql_error(); } Bastien From: Marc Henri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Error: "

RE: [PHP-DB] Error: "Resource id #3"

2005-05-14 Thread Marc Henri
Hello, Thank you very much to Bastien Koert and Firan Corneliu. You both solved my problem. Shame on me! _ Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 1 Go d'espace de stockage pour vos mails