returning an array?

[ChrisMartino]

Hey there,

 

Now I was curious if there was a way I could return an array in my function like the following, I currently get a error though:

 

Catchable fatal error: Object of class panel_accounts could not be converted to string in C:\wamp\www\X-HostLTD - Panel\PanelFrontend\index.php on line 21

 

But can you only return strings?.

 

Here is the function that it errors on:

 

function returnAccountInformation($AccountID)
{
return mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ****_***** WHERE *****_***** = '".mysql_escape_string($AccountID)."'"));
}

 

Could somebody help me on the matter?, Thank you.

 

P.S sorry for staring out the table names but I don't really want people knowing my database structure hehe.

[corbin]

The problem is that you're trying to convert an object to a string, likely doing so implicitly by trying to echo or print it.

 

Objects that do not have a __toString method do not have any defined mechanism for being converted to a string and as such throw an exception like that one.

 

 

 

I need to see more code before I can help you with actual code though.  That function you posted does not return an object.

[Alex]

This is slightly off topic and won't solve your problem, but you should be using mysql_real_escape_string and not mysql_escape_string which is depreciated.

[ChrisMartino]

The problem is that you're trying to convert an object to a string, likely doing so implicitly by trying to echo or print it.

 

Objects that do not have a __toString method do not have any defined mechanism for being converted to a string and as such throw an exception like that one.

 

 

 

I need to see more code before I can help you with actual code though.  That function you posted does not return an object.

 

Thanks for your help, It was a mistype error that caused it, in the functions arguments I put two $'s for the variable, and AlexWD thanks for telling me!, I've just converted them all over now.