I ran this code and I got a Resource id #3 error where it should have showed the full movies table.
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "password") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("treehouse_movie_db") or die(mysql_error());
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM movies")
or die(mysql_error());
echo $data;
This is not an error
Your query is getting executed and you are getting appropriate resource from mysql_query()
as it should be returned.
To get the response you have to use mysql_fetch_array()
or mysql_fetch_assoc()
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "password") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("treehouse_movie_db") or die(mysql_error());
$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM movies")
or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($data))
{
print_r($row);
}
SUGGESTION: mysql_* are no longer maintained .Try switching to mysqli_* or PDO
You're not getting an error, the MySQL API is just doing what you're asking it to: echoing the contents of $data
, which is a MySQL query resource at this point. Extend the code to actually retrieve the results:
while($row = mysql_fetch_object($data))
var_dump($row);
And you'll see the output.
Note that the mysql_* API is deprecated since PHP 5.5 by the way.