If result is true, I take this to mean that the query could be executed.
And I take MySQL affected rows to mean that N rows were affected AND the
result was true:

<?
$sql = "SELECT * FROM ...";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if($result)
    {
    // it did work
    echo mysql_affected_rows();
    }
else
    {
    // it didn't work
    echo mysql_error();
    }
?>


I haven't dug right down to make sure this method works for every problem,
but so far, no problems found.


Justin French


on 01/10/02 2:23 AM, Henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> mysql_affected_rows() returns zero if you update without changing the data
> in a database record. How do you tell the difference betwix "it worked but
> nothing changed" as opposed to "it didn't work"?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Henry
> 
> 


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