Hi Everyone. I am having a bit of a mysterious error that I cannot find a solution to. I can manually assign a value to $uid and everything works. With a var though, I keep getting an error about mysql _query not having a valid resource.
I cannot get variables to work in my sql statements; I have tried quotes, brackets, braces, etc. Any idears would be greatly appreaciated. <?PHP //var passed from calling function; $uid; //test to see if value is indeed making it over from calling function echo $uid; //mysql query $sql = "SELECT u_name FROM members WHERE u_name = {$uid}"; $result = mysql_query($sql); while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result) { //test to try and figure out what is going on echo $row['u_name']; //tenery statement to evaluate and reassign value to $uid. //this statement should live inside the while loop! $uid = (!$result || $result == NULL || $result == '0') ? NULL : $row['u_name']; } ?>