Steve Not quite clear on your problem - did you run an ALTER TABLE on your MySQL table or just an INSERT of a new row? Assuming it was the former, all I can say is look at the code that populates the $cat_array variable to see if the underlying query would have been affected by the alter table command... Does the query that populates $cat_array run OK if executed directly in MySQL? Rich
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 December 2002 13:11 To: PHP General Subject: [PHP] Different output on two different servers Hi all, I have set-up a production server and a live server. The problem is with the production server. I am using PHP version 4.2.3 and MySQL 3.23.39 on both servers. We have just configured the production server to mimick the live server (which incidentally works fine) and the code from both servers is identical. I dumped all the data into the production MySQL database then copied the code from the live server to our production one and there didn't seem to be any problems. However today my boss asked for a new category to go into our webshop with a new product. I went into MySQL and updated the database fine then when I went to check the section of the site to see if the extra category and product are there I get my own PHP encoded error 'No categories currently available'. It fails on the first function: function display_categories($cat_array) { //display all categories in the array passed in if (!is_array($cat_array)) { echo "<br>No categories currently available.<br>"; } else { //create table echo "<table width = \"760\" border='0' background='images/shopbg.gif'>"; etc......... Now it works superbly on my live server and did work fine until I tried adding another field to the database on the production server. Where should I start looking to de-bug this? Steve Jackson Web Developer Viola Systems Ltd. http://www.violasystems.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile +358 50 343 5159 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php