Question

I am currently working on a PHP project with MySQL. I have the PHP tag at the top and bottom of the page to start and end the PHP. In between the PHP tags I am opening an echo statement output HTML to the browser. In parts of the page where I need to perform PHP, I end the echo tag and perform a MySQL Query using

mysql_query($myQuery) or die("Error");

When the MySQL has an error, it stops at that point and the rest of the HTML isn’t shown which obviously affects the design of the page.

How can I get the HTML part to continue if the MySQL fails to run.

Answer 1

An example of your code would be useful, but in general, the mysql_query() or die() pattern is not necessary. If you don’t want execution to halt upon the failure of a given query, simply omit the or die() part:

echo 'Output something';
$res = mysql_query($sql);
if ($res) {
 /* do stuff with the query results */
} else {
  /* output an error if desired... or don't */
  echo 'There was a database error: '.mysql_error();
}
echo 'Output some more stuff';