Posted by John Holmes on 01/06/05 21:17

> From: "Wil Hitchman" <wil.hitchman@iape1096.org>
>
> I get the following error
>
> Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/wilmail/public_html/elblog.php on line 7
> &n=& //error ends here
>
> with the following bit of code
>
> $qResult = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM blog_entries ORDER BY id DESC");
>
> $nRows = mysql_num_rows($qResult);
> $rString ="&n=".$nRows;

Your query has failed for some reason, so $qResult is not a valid result set. Use mysql_error() to find out why.

---John Holmes...

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