Re: [PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Doug Semig
I see you there's been lots of responses already, but there's an important related bit of news folks might want to know. Everyone who uses the mysql_affected_rows() should know that a bug was fixed in 3.23.36 that evidentally reports affected rows incorrectly if MySQL was compiled without support

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] RE: [PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Terry Romine
On Thursday, March 29, 2001, at 08:32 AM, Nick Davies wrote: > Doesn't the command return 1 or 0 in success or failure? > > You may not have a result > > Probably wrong but something like > > if (mysql_query($query)) { > > } else { > > } What I understand is that the return from the query only

[PHP-DB] RE: [PHP] RE: [PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Boget, Chris
> Doesn't the command return 1 or 0 in success or failure? Not 1 or 0. It returns 0 or some other value. Almost the same, but not quite. > You may not have a result > Probably wrong but something like > if (mysql_query($query)) { > } else { > } > or you could die out mysql_query($query) or d

[PHP-DB] Re: [PHP] RE: [PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Nick Davies
Doesn't the command return 1 or 0 in success or failure? You may not have a result Probably wrong but something like if (mysql_query($query)) { } else { } or you could die out mysql_query($query) or die On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Boget, Chris wrote: > > i was just wondering what you g

RE: [PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Boget, Chris
> i was just wondering what you guys do to check if a wquery > suceeded or not? > I know about mysql_num_rows() and mysql_affected_rows(), just > wondered what > you guys do? I do this: $result = mysql( $dbname, $query ); if(( $result ) && ( mysql_errno() == 0 )) { // query was successful

Re: Odp: [PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Karsten Dambekalns
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:25:42PM +0200, Hans-Werner Guth wrote: > We do it this way (code snippet) > > Bartek Pawlik wrote: > > ...snipp... > > > > > > I normally do something like: You can do something like --- if(mysql_query($sql)) { success } else { error } --- Regard

Re: Odp: [PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Hans-Werner Guth
We do it this way (code snippet) ... $dbqueryline = mysql_db_query ($mredatabase, "select vorgang, bezeichnung from mrebewkennz order by vorgang", $dbhandle); if (mysql_errno() != 0) { echo mysql_error(); echo "\n"; } else { $bewkenznzahl = mysql_num_rows($dbqueryline); print

Odp: [PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Bartek Pawlik
I do the same and I think this is the only way Bartek Pawlik - Original Message - From: Jordan Elver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PHP Database Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; PHP General Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: [P

[PHP-DB] Best way to check if a query succeeded

2001-03-29 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, i was just wondering what you guys do to check if a wquery suceeded or not? I know about mysql_num_rows() and mysql_affected_rows(), just wondered what you guys do? I normally do something like: $sql = "SELECT something FROM table"; $result = mysql_query($sql); if(@mysql_num_rows($result) >