ptolomea Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 I'm helping a friend out with his website we were cruising right along until he made some changes to the file tree. Now we get mysql_query(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/content/p/t/o/ptolomea/html/functions.php on line 4 Just to be sure as his files had alot of code in them i built a new set of files and uploaded to my own webspace which is where this error is coming from. This has been bugging me for 2 days now cant make heads or tails everything i try results in the same. Main page (page1.php) <?php require_once 'connect.php'; include 'functions.php'; ob_start(); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <?php test(); //echo genExpBarLinks(); ?> </div> <?php mysql_close($con); ob_end_flush(); ?> </body> </html> connect.php <?php $con = mysql_connect('DBIP','CIndex','******'); if (!$con){die('Could not connect to database: ' . mysql_error());} mysql_select_db('CIndex',$con); ?> functions.php <?php function test() { $data = "Select * from Books"; $all = mysql_query($data,$con) or die(mysql_error()); $test = mysql_fetch_array($all); var_dump($test); }; ?> If i move the data in functions to page1.php i get results. i have tryed all sorts of things including adding "include and/or require_once connect.php" on/infront of every line in functions.php. My only idea is that functions.php file is not being allowed access to the database connection hence the adding/including of the connection file inside. Thanks for any help -Ptolomea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoFool Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 <?php function test() { $data = mysql_query("Select * from Books") or die(mysql_error()); $test = mysql_fetch_array($data); var_dump($test); }; ?> thats a shorter method .... try that... oh by the way what is $con ??? Nothing there suggests its a defined variable.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoFool Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Also rather than : <?php $con = mysql_connect('DBIP','CIndex','******'); if (!$con){die('Could not connect to database: ' . mysql_error());} mysql_select_db('CIndex',$con); ?> Why not just: <?php mysql_connect('DBIP','CIndex','******'); mysql_select_db('CIndex'); ?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptolomea Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 $con is defined in connect.php $con = msql_connect( etc... but i will give those a try, couldn't hurt , i will edit with results Edit now that worked remvoing the $con from the mysql connect and any mysql function calling $con. care to explain why that would work or is $con not within the scope of functions.php? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoFool Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Yeh i feel connect in the connect area so your not carrying the $con.. once connected the query i showed you will work.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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