"error: Query Was Empty" While Verifying Unique Email.

[BrettHartel]

Thank you for the help thus far everyone!

 

I have updated my code with the help of reqinix. Now I have this error:

 

Error: Query was empty

 

Brief - I want the user to enter their eMail into the form and submit it to signup.php; the PHP file will do the following:

1. Generate a random User_ID that is 16 characters long.
    
   
   
2. Check the database to make sure the Unque_ID does not exist. If it does exists the script will generate another random User_ID and attempt again . If it does NOT exist the PHP script will continue.
    
   
   
3. Check the database to make sure the eMail does not exists. If it does exists the fuction will not create a new account and displays "eMail already exists." If it does NOT exists then the script will continue.
    
   
   
4. The PHP script will add the informtion to the table named "eMail" as a new entry.
   

Here is the updated script with requinix's help:

 

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","******","******");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("diamon79_mysql", $con);

function generateRandomString($Generate_ID = 16) {
return substr(str_shuffle("01234567890123456789"), 0, $Generate_ID);
}
$searchquery = "SELECT * FROM eMail WHERE `User_ID` = '$Generate_ID'";
$searchresult = mysql_query($searchquery) or die(mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($searchresult) == 0) {
$User_Id = $Generate_ID;
eMailCheck();
}
// no rows found
else {
generateRandomString();
}
function eMailCheck() {
$eMail = "$_POST[eMail]";
return $eMail;
}
$searcheMailquery = "SELECT * FROM eMail WHERE `eMail` = '$eMail'";
$searcheMailresult = mysql_query($searcheMailquery) or die(mysql_error());

if (mysql_num_rows($searcheMailresult) == 0) {
PostInformation();
}
// no rows found
else {
echo "eMail already exists";
}

function PostInformation() {
$sql="INSERT INTO eMail (User_D, eMail)
VALUES
('$User_ID','$_POST[eMail]')";
}
if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
{
die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo "1 record added";

mysql_close($con);
?>

[MDCode]

1 and 2 can be solved with the php function uniqid(); I see no reason why it needs to be 16 characters long (only 3 longer than what uniqid will create). Unless you can explain it.

 

3.

$result = mysql_query(SELECT * FROM table WHERE email = '$email');
if(mysql_num_rows($result) != "0") {
echo "Email exists in the database.";
} else {
// execute the rest
}

 

4. I don't think I even need to explain it...

[BrettHartel]

Sorry to confuse you SocialCloud. I am confused about why I keep receiving the error "Error: Query was empty". I am new to PHP and Im not sure where I went wrong. The four points were just to allow the reader to know what I was trying to do.

 

For your comment about #3, is my code incorrect?

[MDCode]

I assumed those were possible errors you were having. Oh well. Do you know which query is empty?

[BrettHartel]

LOL! That is my problem. I have no idea how to know what query is empty or the steps to figure it out.

[MDCode]

You could always remove the or die(mysql_error()); and replace one by one to see.

[BrettHartel]

I tried removing the "or die..." but I kept getting the same error.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The query is empty because the php variable, $sql, being put into the mysql_query() statement, near the end of your posted code, doesn't exist in the program scope where the mysql_query() statement is at.

 

Your PostInformation() function definition ends immediately after the assignment statement for the $sql variable. It should end after the echo "1 record added"; statement.

[BrettHartel]

Thank you PFMaBiSmAd! I am confused on how to end the statment after the echo.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

For a function definition, the statements between the opening and closing braces { ... } are the code for that function definition.

 

function PostInformation() {

 

// statements that are part of this function definition go here...

 

}

 

You would need to move the closing } down so that it is after all the statements you intended to be inside that function definition.

[BrettHartel]

Thank You!