Re: What's wrong with this?

>I'm trying to get a few lines of PHP working which a couple of
>people have kindly provided and I can't get it to work.
>
>
>Here's all it consists of:-
>
><? $connectid = pg_connect("194.164.53.200", "5432", "postgres"); $query =
>"SELECT townName FROM towns"; $result = pg_exec($connectid, $query); $row
>= pg_fetch_array($result,$row); print($row["townName"]); ?> If I use a
>numeric constant, as in:- print($row[0]); it works. Any ideas on what is
>missing here? BTW this PHP script should be runnable by anyone on the
>Internet. Maybe the problem is due to cross-platform issues... -- John

I don't think you need the quotes around the fieldname -
print($row[townName]);
or try single quotes - print($row['townName']);
its not a cross-platform thing, its a php syntax thing.

HTH

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