----- Original Message ----
> From: Bob McConnell <r...@cbord.com>
> To: Tommy Pham <tommy...@yahoo.com>; php-general@lists.php.net
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:37:00 AM
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Stricter Error Checking?
>
> From: Tommy Pham
> >> From: Tim Legg
> >>
> >> I just spent way, way to much time trying to debug code due to a
> misnamed
> >> element. Here is a simplified example of the problem I dealt with.
> >>
> >>
> >> $test = "SELECT * FROM `Materials` WHERE `Part_Number` =
> '125664'";
> >> $result = mysql_query($test,$handle);
> >> if(!$result)
> >> {
> >> die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
> >> }
> >> $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
> >> echo $row['Number'];
> >>
> >> After retyping the code 3 or 4 times over the course of the morning,
> I finally
> >> found where the problem was. The problem is that the database field
> is called
> >> 'Part_Number', not 'Number'. The field 'Number' does not exist in
> the
> >> database. I am very surprised that I didn't even get a warning that
> there might
> >> be a problem with the statement. All I saw is that nothing was being
> returned
> >> via the echo command.
> >
> > if(!$result)
> > {
> > die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
> > }
> >
> > This didn't work when you used 'Number' instead of 'Part_Number'?
> Strange...
> >
>
> I think the problem is that he didn't check that the key he used
> actually existed before using the value it pointed to. So he got an
> empty string for $row['Number']; because the key should have been
> 'Part_Number'. I don't know that even E_STRICT would catch that one.
>
> Bob McConnell
>
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My mistake, didn't have enough caffeine for the day :)
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