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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:52:07+00:00

Can anyone of you help me understand the behavior I get when visiting this

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Can anyone of you help me understand the behavior I get when visiting this page?

<html>

    <body>

    <?php
        $liendb = mysql_connect("localhost","","");

        mysql_select_db ("test");
        for($i = 0; $i < 418; ++$i)
        {
            echo("Any old text<br />");
        }


        $resultatSQL = mysql_query("SELECT uid FROM nombres ORDER BY uid");

        while($tab = mysql_fetch_array($resultatSQL, MYSQL_ASSOC))

        {
            echo("<p>".$tab['uid']."</p>");
            echo("<br />\n");

        }

        mysql_close();

    ?>

    </body>
</html>

I exported the mysql table this example is based on so that we can work on the same table.. Here it is:

-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
-- version 3.2.0.1
-- http://www.phpmyadmin.net
--
-- Servidor: localhost
-- Tiempo de generación: 06-01-2010 a las 21:49:50
-- Versión del servidor: 5.1.37
-- Versión de PHP: 5.3.0

SET SQL_MODE="NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";

--
-- Base de datos: `test`
--

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Estructura de tabla para la tabla `nombres`
--

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `nombres` (
  `uid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  PRIMARY KEY (`uid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=43 ;

--
-- Volcar la base de datos para la tabla `nombres`
--

INSERT INTO `nombres` (`uid`) VALUES
(1),
(2),
(3),
(4),
(5),
(6),
(7),
(8),
(9),
(10),
(11),
(12),
(13),
(14),
(15),
(16),
(17),
(18),
(19),
(20),
(21),
(22),
(23),
(24),
(25),
(26),
(27),
(28),
(29),
(30),
(31),
(32),
(33),
(34),
(35),
(36),
(37),
(38),
(39),
(40),
(41),
(42);

In theory, I believe this page should print 418 lines of “Any old text”, and then print all entries of table “nombres”, so numbers 1 to 42. In practice, it does. But if I change that magic number, 418, problems happen.

If I use a number smaller than 418, firefox offers to download the page instead of just showing it to me.. If I do download it, I get a blank file..

If I use a number larger than 418, I don’t get all the entries to table “nombres”. For example, when I use 419, I get only numbers 1 to 41. When I use 420, I get only numbers 1 to 40. And so on until 454, where I only get number 1. The rest of the page, everything following the numbers, is truncated, including the closing body and html tags.

If I use 455 or more, I don’t get any numbers at all!

My questions:

Is anyone else able to reproduce this behavior?
How could you explain this behavior?

The server I use is apache (actually xampp)
I printed phpinfo() and asked firefox to save the resulting page.. Here it is, compressed.
http://www.angelfire.com/planet/shawninder/phpinfo.zip

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  1. Editorial Team

    Judging from your code, maybe the problems lies in the mysql connection. You should always check if the mysql connection is successfully or failed, before using it. Try to rewrite your code like this:

    <html>
    <body>
    <?php
        //open connection
        $liendb = mysql_connect("localhost","","");
        if ( ! $liendb )
        {
          die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
        }

        //select database
        $select_db = mysql_select_db ("test", $liendb);
        if ( ! $select_db )
        {
          die ("Failed to do select the database: ' . mysql_error());
        }

        //print 'magic' lines
        for($i = 0; $i < 418; ++$i)
        {
            echo("Any old text<br />");
        }

        //get table's content
        $resultatSQL = mysql_query("SELECT uid FROM nombres ORDER BY uid", $liendb);
        if ( ! $resultatSQL )
        {
          die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
        }

        //process table content
        while($tab = mysql_fetch_array($resultatSQL, MYSQL_ASSOC))
        {
            echo("<p>".$tab['uid']."</p>");
            echo("<br />\n");
        }
        mysql_close($liendb);
    ?>
    </body>
</html>

    With this code, if any error related with mysql connection happened, then you will got the error message, instead of it silently fail. Maybe it will make the php module in apache crash, so the process died prematurely and apache then send the incomplete page as a file to download, instead of displaying it as a web page.

    Let me know the result in your computer.

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