Re: Vexing PHP problem - browser hangs.

try:
ini_set("error_reporting",E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors",1);

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

Requires code more stricter.

/B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Crawford" <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: "Lynna Landstreet" <lynna(at)gallery44(dot)org>; <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 15:11
Subject: Re: [PHP] Vexing PHP problem - browser hangs.

> Be aware that $artist_list is an array (rows) of arrays (columns in each
row).
>
> For your version of php you need to first get the row with
> $thisrow = pg_fetch_row($artist_list, $row)
> and then get the fields from the row array with
> $thisrow[0], $thisrow[1]...
>
> See: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-fetch-row.php
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 16 July 2003 1:44 pm, Lynna Landstreet wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm running into trouble with a bit of PHP code that ought to be simple
and
> > probably is to anyone who actually knows what they're doing, but is
causing
> > my browser to hang every time I run it. The script in question follows;
> > it's supposed to query the artists table in my database and print a list
of
> > all the artists, one per line, last name then first name. It also pulls
up
> > the artist_id field because once I've gotten the damn thing to work at
all,
> > I'm going to use that to link the names to artist info pages, but right
now
> > that field isn't being used.
> >
> > I know the connection to the database (which happens in the head section
of
> > the document, not here) is being made successfully, because I tested
that
> > on its own first. And the query is being made successfully, because I
> > tested that to, before I added the code to display the artists' names.
It's
> > that part that is causing it to hang. I don't get any error message or
> > anything, the browser just "thinks" for an eternity, locking up my
system
> > while doing so, until I eventually force-quit it.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong? There is a fairly
> > large number of artist records (around 500), but I don't think that's
it,
> > because when I tried changing the second expression in the for statement
to
> > row < 30 instead of row < pg_numrows($artist_list) to just print the
first
> > 30 names, it didn't help. I'm hoping the problem is something simply
that a
> > more experienced person could see easily and I'm just missing because
I'm
> > new at this...
> >
> > Anyway, here's the code. BTW, the server has PostgreSQL 7.2 and PHP 4.1,
so
> > some of the names of the PHP functions are different than they would be
in
> > 4.2.
> >
> > <?
> >
> > // queries the database, finds artists
> >
> > $query = "SELECT artist_id, firstname, lastname FROM artists
> > ORDER BY lastname";
> > $artist_list = pg_exec($db, $query);
> > if ($artist_list) {
> >
> > // checks to see if any results where found
> >
> > if ( pg_numrows($artist_list) == 0) {
> > echo "<p>Sorry, no artists were found.</p>";
> > } else {
> >
> > // writes list
> >
> > for ($row = 0; row < pg_numrows($artist_list); $row++)
{
> > echo "<p>" . pg_result($artist_list, $row,
> > 'lastname') . ", " . pg_result($artist_list, $row, 'firstname') .
"</p>";
> > }
> >
> > // adds total to bottom of list
> >
> > echo "<p>Total results retrieved:" .
> > pg_numrows($artist_list) . "</p>";
> >
> > }
> >
> > // prints error message if query fails
> >
> > } else {
> > echo "<p>The query failed with the following error
> > message:</p>";
> > echo "<p>" . pg_errormessage($db) . "</p>";
> > }
> > ?>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lynna
>
>
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